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Useful MRI Safety Websites 1.
Cardiac MRI Anatomical Atlas is a basic anatomical primer available at
http://www.scmr.org/education/atlas/intro/mrilinks.htm.
The atlas authored by Steven Thrupp et al from Auckland Cardiac MRI Research Group
and co workers, contains illustrative description on the five different views
of the heart: sagittal, coronal, axial, long axis and short axis. These five cross-sectional
cardiac anatomy view sets, taken at end-diastole comprises a series of sequential
images totaling to 98 anatomical images with over 750 labels. Enabled by Java
applets, one can conveniently manipulate the zoom, pan, labels, brightness and
contrast of the individual images.
2.
A Guide To Cardiac Imaging at http://www.simplyphysics.com/Cardiac_1.html
describes the standardized cardiac imaging planes used in a typical MRI examination.
To determine the correct orientation of the imaging planes, diagrammatical descriptions
of vertical long axis (VLA) or 2 chamber view (2C), horizontal long axis (HLA
or 4 chamber view (4C) and multiple, contiguous short axis views are available.
3. MRI in Heart and Circulation is an educative narrative authored
by Graham Wright, Ph.D., from the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Science
Centre. The material available at http://www.sunnybrook.utoronto.ca:8080/~gawright/menu_mr_nf.html
focuses on MR Physics relevant to Cardiac MRI/ The topics covered includes Basic
Physics, Imaging, Contrast, and Noise, Image Artifacts and Image Analysis.
4.
Pediatric Non-Breath-Hold Cardiac MR Imaging is an educative exhibit from
the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Authored by Daniel J. Hoefer, Yutaka
Sato, Lizann Bolinger and Thomas D. Scholz, the material is available at http://www.vh.org/pediatric/provider/radiology/PedsCardiacMR/Home.html
and covers sections on Hardware/Software, Technique with Cases using non-breath-hold
cardiac MR in the study of congenital heart disease (CHD) in infants and children.
5.
Heart MRI at http://www.heartmri.com/
is a portal specifically focusing on users of cardiovascular MR scanners. The
educative material covers MRI Applications like Viability (infarct) Imaging, Quantitative
function parameters, Arrythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, Software descriptions,
Cardiac MRI Protocols and Cardiac MRI Lectures. The section on Lectures contains
the following topics at the moment : Lectures on myocardial viability, Quantitative
evaluation of LV function, Advanced MR techniques and Practical cardiac MR.
6. Cardiac MR protocols is available from http://www.mri.jhu.edu/~dbluemke/.
Authored by DA Bluemke, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore,
the educative research material is in the form of copyrighted slide and lectures.
The topics covered includes Normal Cardiac MR parameters: LV/ RV parameters, normalized
values, Basic Cardiac MR protocols, Cardiac MR lecture, Cardiac function evaluation
and Development of dobutamine-stress cardiac MRI examination. A ready reference
on Cardiac Parameters is available at http://www.mri.jhu.edu/~dbluemke/Cardiac
Parameters.html.
7. Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute at http://www.nums.nwu.edu/feinbergcardio/mri/clinical.html
or http://www.nums.nwu.edu/feinbergcardio/mri/
offers educative material on Cardiac MRI. Sourced from Northwestern Memorial Hospital
in Chicago, the website offers a range of illustrative cases on Cardiac MRI, Coronary
and peripheral Angiography and Viability Imaging.
8. The Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Unit of the Royal Brompton Hospital and National
Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College established in 1984, has its official
website at http://www.rbh-cmr.org/.
An offshoot of its research in CMRI is dedicated software CMR Tools. For more
information on CMR Tools, one can browse http://www.rbh-cmr.org/tocCMRTools.htm.
9. Cardiovascular MRI Teaching File is available at http://www.cardiac-mri.com/.
This educational web site offers clinical information about cardiovascular imaging.
This web site has an impressive Teaching File by André J. Duerinckx, MD-PhD, Professor
of Radiology and Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
in Dallas, Texas and his collaborators.
10. The Official website
of European Society of Cardiology, a society "dedicated to improving the
quality of life of the European population by reducing the impact of cardiovascular
disease" is available at http://www.escardio.org.
The Cardiovascular MRI Workgroup has its web page at http://www.escardio.org/wg26/
and http://www.eurocmr.org/, wherein interesting case studies are available.
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