From the reviews:
“This is a pocket-sized, quick reference guide for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. ... It is intended for students, physicians in training, and practitioners who are interested in a basic understanding of CMR. ... The authors have done a good job of covering all major topics in CMR in a concise book. The information is presented in an easy-to-understand, user-friendly format. This book should be used as a quick reference to understand basics of CMR.” (Vinod S. Kudagi, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2011)
Preface.- Contributors.- Content.- Foreword.- Part I: How CMR works.- What’s inside the magnet and why?.- The MRI environment.- Protons & spins: The origin of the MRI signal.- Generating a signal: RF pulses and echoes.- Relaxation times, gradient echoes and spin echoes.- Making an image: Locating signals in space.- Image space and k-space.- Imaging parameters & image attributes.- Improving SNR with surface coils and coil arrays.- Pulse sequences and image contrast.- Gradient echo versus spin echo.- Image types: black blood vs. bright blood .- Dealing with cardiac motion: How do we image the beating heart?.- Dealing with respiratory motion.- Fast imaging: How do we speed up the image acquisition?.- Special pulse sequences for cardiac imaging.- Common artefacts.- Part II: How CMR is performed.- Basics.- The referral.- Indications, Contraindications and safety.- Setting up a CMR study.- MR methods.- Localising images and planning of standard views.- Anatomical & morphological imaging.- T1-weighted (black blood) imaging.- T2-weighted (black blood) imaging.- T2* relaxometry.- Cine imaging.- Myocardial tagging.- Phase contrast velocity encoding.- Contrast enhanced MR angiography.- Myocardial perfusion imaging.- Early and late gadolinium enhancement.- Coronary artery imaging.- Anatomy by CMR.- Cross-sectional anatomy.- Customised views.- Comparison with other imaging modalities.- The CMR report.- Basic approach to reporting CMR studies.- General observations.- Extra cardiac findings.- Cardiac findings.- Part III: Clinical Indications for CMR imaging.- Diseases of the aorta.- Heamatoma.- Ulceration.- Dissection.- Aneurysm.- Cardiomyopathies.- Dilated cardiomyopathy.- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.- Left ventricular non-compaction.- Myocarditis.- Cardiac sarcoidosis.- Churg Strauss syndrome.- Amyloidosis.- Siderotic cardiomyopathy.- Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy.- Pericardial disease.- Pericardial effusion.- Constrictive pericarditis.- Pericardial tumours.- Congenital abnormalities of the pericardium.- Cardiac tumours.- Benign lesions.- Malignant lesions.- Other masses & tumours.- Valvular heart disease.- Congenital valve disease.- Valve regurgitation.- Valve stenosis.- Prosthetic valves.- Vegetations.- Paravalvular abscesses.- Ischaemic heart disease.- Stress Myocardial perfusion imaging.- Stress Wall Motion Imaging.- CMR for assessment of viability.- Acute coronary syndromes.- Positive Cardiac Enzymes and Normal Coronary Arteries.- Basic congenital heart disease.- Coarctation.- Tetralogy of Fallots.- Transposition of great arteries.- Anomlaous coronaries.- Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return.- Pulmonary vein assessment.- Interventional CMR