Clinical Cardiac MRI

Cardiac MR Physics.- MR Contrast Agents for Cardiac Imaging.- Practical Setup.- Cardiac Anatomy.- Cardiovascular MR Imaging Planes and Segmentation.- Cardiac Function.- Myocardial Perfusion.- Ischemic Heart Disease.- Nonischemic Myocardial Disease.- Pulmonary Hypertension.- Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation.- Pericardial Disease.- Cardiac Masses.- Valvular Heart Disease.- Coronary Artery Disease.- Congenital Heart Disease.- Great Vessels.- MR-Guided Cardiac Catheterization.- Cardiac Modelling.- Future Perspectives.- General Conclusion.

Jan Bogaert, MD, PhD, works in the Department of Radiology, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium and is a Professor at the Catholic University, Leuven. During his early career in the 1990s he received a Kodak Belgium Grant (1993) and a grant from the Royal Belgian Society of Radiology (1994). His awards include the "Prix de l'APERR" (l'association pour l'étude et la recherce en radiologie) (1996), a Young Investigators Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine (1997), and a Cardiac MR Science Award for excellence in the field of cardiovascular MR research (Philips, Miami, 2006). He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and was previously on the editorial board of the Belgian Journal of Radiology and of European Radiology (cardiovascular radiology) and was an associate editor of the European Heart Journal (2005-2008). From 2006 to 2008 he served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Radiology. In 2006, he was a member of the Health Technology Assessment, Kenniscentrum, on the value of MRI. He has been an author on more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals as well as many book chapters, case reports, and articles in national journals.