Principles and Practice of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease: Form, Function and Flow

List of contributors, vii

Foreword, x

Preface, xi

Part I: The basics of cardiac MR

1 Physics of cardiac MR and image formation, 3
Orlando P Simonetti and Georgeta Mihai

2 Technical aspects of pediatric cardiac MR, 17
Christopher Occleshaw

3 Assessment of morphology, 33
John C Wood

4 Assessment of ventricular function and blood fl ow, 51
Mark A Fogel

5 Contrast cardiac MR – anatomy, physiology, viability and perfusion, 75
Scott D Flamm

Part II: Cardiac MR of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease

6 The normal cardiac magnetic resonance examination – ruling out congenital heart disease, 93
Matthew Harris and Mark A Fogel

7 Abnormalities of the atria and systemic veins, 110
Tiffanie R Johnson and Mark A Fogel

8 Abnormalities of the ventricles and pericardium, 124
Beth F Printz

9 MRI in conotruncal anomalies (except tetralogy of Fallot), 155
Willem A Helbing and Adriaan Moelker

10 Tetralogy of Fallot: morphology and function, 172
Arno AW Roest, Lucia JM Kroft and Albert de Roos

11 Aortic arch anomalies, 183
Paul M Weinberg and Kevin K Whitehead

12 MR assessment of pulmonary circulation, 209
Shi-Joon Yoo and Lars Grosse-Wortmann

13 Valvular heart disease, 236
Juha Koskenvuo, Karen G Ordovás and Charles B Higgins

14 Imaging coronary arteries in children, 250
Gerald F Greil, Rene M Botnar and Taylor Chung

15 Other complex congenital heart disease – heterotaxy, complex spatial relationships, conjoined twins and ectopia cordis, 265
Rajesh Krishnamurthy and Taylor Chung

Part III: Special topics in cardiac MR of pediatric and congenital heart disease

16 Cardiac magnetic resonance of single ventricles, 289
Mark A Fogel

17 Baffl es and conduits, 316
Philipp Beerbaum, Israel Valverde, Gerald F Greil and Sonya V Babu-Narayan

18 Cardiac tumors, 345
Ashwin Prakash

19 Considerations in the post-operative patient, 354
G Wesley Vick III

20 Interventional magnetic resonance imaging, 382
Gerald F Greil, Sanjeet Hegde, Kawal Rhode, Carsten Schirra, Philipp Beerbaum and Reza Razavi

21 Adult congenital heart disease, 398
Victor A Ferrari and Alexander R Opotowsky

22 Cardiovascular computed tomographic angiography: complementary role to magnetic resonance imaging, 414
Jeffrey C Hellinger and Stephen C Cook

23 Radiation in cardiac imaging in congenital heart disease, 429
Mark A Fogel

24 Pediatric cardiovascular MRI in the outpatient private practice setting, 440
Nancy L Morris and Edward T Martin

25 The role of the technologist in performing a cardiac MRI (CMR) exam, 444
Christine Harris

Index, 450