Table of Contents

1: Understanding CMR
2: Scan set-up and optimisation
3: Image acquisition
4: Image processing
5: Ventricular function assessment
6: Ischaemic heart disease
7: Inheritable cardiomyopathies
8: Myocardial inflammation and infiltration
9: Cardiac tumours and other masses
10: Valve disease
11: Pericardial disease
12: Congenital heart disease
13: Aortic disease
14: Peripheral arteries
15: Coronary MR imaging
16: Systemic and pulmonary veins
17: Extra-cardiac findings
18: New horizons for CMR

About the Author

Saul Myerson is an honorary consultant cardiologist at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. His clinical and research interests are in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and other non-invasive cardiac imaging and he has been performing CMR for over 10 years. He has published widely, is editor of Emergencies in Cardiology and a clinical fellow at the University of Oxford. He was president of the British Junior Cardiologists
Association from 2005-2007. Jane Francis is a career imaging technologist. Always ready for a challenge, she has worked in a varied number of positions before specialising in cardiac magnetic resonance.
In 2002 Jane was appointed as the chief technologist at the University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research where she is involved not only in clinical cardiac MR but clinical research and imaging trials. She is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, posters and abstracts. She has been invited to speak on various aspects of cardiac MR both nationally and internationally and is an active member of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance,
being a founding member of the technologists' committee and the chair from 2004-2006.
Stefan Neubauer is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Clinical Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR) at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. His clinical work and research over the past 20 years has been devoted to the development and application of CMR. He has published more than 200 original research articles. Editorial positions and contributions to scientific bodies include his involvement
with the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (President 2006-2007), Chairman of the British Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance, Co-Editor of Magnetic Resonance Materials. Awards and Honours include the American Heart Association Paul Dudley White International Lectureship Award 2005 and the British Cardiovascular Society Thomas Lewis Lecture 2008.