Advanced Cardiac Imaging

This course is a part of Advanced Cardiac Imaging, a 2-course Professional Certificate series from edX.

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This course is for radiologists, cardiologists, radiographers/ technologists and other health professionals who want to learn more about cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). Previous experience in CMR is not required.

The learning outcomes are:

Understanding of the basic CMR physics and sequences in order to better understand how to acquire cardiac images and how to assess commonly used sequences (eg. Steady state free precession sequence, phase contrast to measure blood flow, T2* and magnetic resonance angiography).

Understand the safety profile and risks of contrast agents used in CMR.

Ability to analyse CMR images at SCMR level 1 competency such as stress perfusion, late gadolinium enhancement and post-processing for ventricular function.

Attain hands-on experience to analyse real clinical cases from a database of 50 clinical cases, using dedicated CMR software, as well as further supplementation through our web forum.

Basic understanding of future developments in the CMR field such as exercise CMR, artificial intelligence, feature tracking, T1 and T2 mapping.

Provide career advice and thoughts from well-known CMR experts through exclusive interviews.

A MOOC on cardiac computed tomography (CT) is also available on this platform in order to introduce you to this complementary cardiovascular imaging technique.

本课程是与国际心血管磁共振学会（SCMR）合作开发的，适合想要深度了解心血管磁共振成像（CMR）的放射科医师，心内科及心外科医师，放射科技师/工程师和其他医疗健康专业人士。而无需具备CMR经验。

学习目标如下：

了解基本的CMR物理和序列知识，以便更好地了解如何获取心脏图像以及如何评估常用序列（例如，稳态自由进动序列，相位对比血流测量，T2 *和磁共振血管造影）。

了解CMR造影剂的安全性和风险。

具备SCMR 1级CMR图像分析能力，例如负荷灌注，延迟强化和心室功能后处理。

临床病例数据库中获取50个真实病例，利用专业后处理软件及学习平台提供的资料进行教学操作，获得实践经验。

对CMR领域未来发展的基本了解，如人工智能、特征追踪，以及T1和T2定量成像。

通过独家访谈获取知名CMR专家对学生的职业建议和想法。

此平台上还提供心脏计算机断层扫描（CT）的公开课，以全面介绍这两种优势互补的心血管成像技术。

What you'll learn

• Introduction of advanced techniques such as T1 and T2 mapping, feature tracking and exercise CMR.
• The different sequences used in cardiac MRI imaging and the physics behind these sequences.
• How to acquire the cardiac imaging planes.
• How to assess the ventricular function, late gadolinium enhancement and T2* for iron overload.
• Understanding the normal appearances of the pericardium, heart muscle, valves and vasculature.
• Understand how different cardiac pathologies result in different forms of cardiac remodelling.
• An overview of the main cardiac diseases, such as coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies (eg. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy), valvular heart disease, cardiac tumours and congenital heart disease.
• 简介高级技术，例如T1和T2分布图，特征跟踪和运动负荷CMR。
• 心脏MRI成像中使用的不同序列及其物理背景知识。
• 心脏成像平面的获得方法。
• 如何分析心室功能、延迟强化以及利用 T2* 评价心肌铁负荷。
• 了解心包、心肌、瓣膜以及血管的正常表现。
• 明白不同的心肌疾病如何造成不同的心脏形态改变。
• 常见心脏疾病的概述，例如冠状动脉疾病，心肌病（例如肥厚性心肌病，扩张型心肌病），心脏瓣膜病，心脏肿瘤和先天性心脏病。
• 通过网络研讨会和论坛，了解并体验如何使用专用软件分析心脏图像。
• 利用正常志愿者和真实病例学习心室功能、血流和T1 /T2 mapping分析方法。