Cardiovascular MRI

Cardiovascular MRI
Friday, February 26, 2010 - Sunday, February 28, 2010
Reston, VA

MEETING SPONSOR:
American College of Radiology
1891 Preston White Dr
Reston, VA 20191
Toll-Free (800) 227-5463, ext 4040
(703) 262-9307
Email: acrcampus@acr.org
Website: http://www.acr.org/s_acr/sec_events.asp?CID=2688&DID=17797

CONFERENCE CENTER:
ACR Education Center
1892 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Website: http://www.acr.org/educenter

MEETING DESCRIPTION:
This two-and-a-half-day course is designed to optimize clinical practice skills by providing intense training in interpreting cardiac MR examinations under the supervision
of expert faculty.

Participants use workstations with the same vendor software as in their own practice and have access to over 50 cardiac MR and vascular MR angiography cases for review. Post-processing techniques and interpretation will be emphasized. The course
also covers technical considerations for obtaining optimal examinations for interpretation.

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Identify normal cardiovascular anatomy and normal anatomic variants.
2. Determine the spectrum of ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies, including function, rest and stress perfusion, and viability.
3. Evaluate of pericardial constriction, cardiac masses, valvular disease, pulmonary veins, and cardiac shunts.
4. Identify new techniques such as assessment of area at risk and myocardial edema with T2W imaging.
5. Interpret vascular MRA, including aorta, renal, carotid, visceral, and peripheral vessels.
6. Recognize imaging manifestations of cardiovascular disease, and the complementary role of MRI to echocardiography, CT, and cardiac catheterization in therapeutic decision making.
7. Apply the technical basis of cardiovascular MRI, including hardware requirements, sequence selection and optimization, and technical limitations.
8. Apply post-processing techniques for functional, flow, and angiographic evaluation.
9. Review ongoing technical and clinical developments in the field of cardiovascular MRI.

INSTRUCTORS:
Cury

CME HOURS: not listed

LECTURE TOPICS:
Cardiac, CT, Vascular