MRI and CT of the Cardiovascular System

PART I Basic Principles ............................................. 1
1 Clinical Approach to Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance Techniques 1
2 Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Techniques 19
3 Techniques for Cardiovascular Computed
Tomography 37
4 Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology::
Imaging Aspects 53
5 Blood Flow Measurements 71
6 Quantification in Cardiac Magnetic
Resonance Imaging and Computed
Tomography 91
7 Magnetic Resonance Contrast Media 107
Maythem Saeed and Charles B. Higgins

PART II Acquired Heart Disease ......................... 121
8 Magnetic Resonance of Cardiomyopathies
and Myocarditis 121
9 Pericardial Diseases 137
10 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular
Cardiomyopathy 154
11 Cardiac Masses 162
12 Valvular Heart Disease 183

PART III Ischemic Heart Disease .................... 198
13 Myocardial Perfusion in Ischemic
Heart Disease 198
14 Left Ventricular Function in Ischemic
Heart Disease 215
15 Regional Left Ventricular Function in
Ischemic Heart Disease:: Determination of
Viability 224
16 Assessment of Myocardial Viability by
Contrast Enhancement 233
17 Tissue Characterization of Ischemic
Myocardial Injury 263
18 Coronary Magnetic Resonance
Angiography:: Technical Approaches 280
19 Coronary Artery Imaging-Clinical
Applications 299
20 Coronary Blood Flow Measurements 316
21 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and
Computed Tomography of Coronary
Artery Bypass Grafts 325
22 Computed Tomography Imaging of
Coronary Calcification 340
23 Coronary Computed Tomography
Angiography 351
24 Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging 361
25 Plaque Characterization-Computed
Tomography 375

PART IV Congenital Heart Disease .................... 385
26 Congenital Heart Disease:: Magnetic
Resonance Evaluation of Morphology
and Function 385
27 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Function
and Flow in Postoperative Congenital
Heart Disease 411
28 Adult Congenital Heart Disease 429

PART V Vascular Diseases ......................................... 441
29 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and
Computed Tomography of Thoracic Aorta 441
30 Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Abdominal Aorta and Renal and
Mesenteric Vessels 469
31 Multidetector Computed Tomographic
Angiography of the Abdominal Arteries 498
32 Magnetic Resonance and Computed
Tomography Angiography of Peripheral
Arteries 514
33 Computed Tomography Angiography and
Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the
Extracranial Carotid Arteries 538

PART VI Interventional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging.............................................. 561
34 Catheter Tracking and Devices 561
35 Endovascular Interventional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging 576
36 Endovascular Interventions-Congenital
Heart Disease 593
37 Magnetic Resonance-Guided Cardiac
Catheterization 610
38 Endovascular Delivery of Gene and
Stem Cell Therapy 629

Index 645