Course content
The course runs for three-months, with entry
possible twice per year in April and October. The course is planned to a weekly timetable,
with sessions designated for attendance of clinical scanning, lectures, seminars,
meetings, and for individual work. The timetable, with a list of dates and topics to be
covered, is included in the course summary provided.
Topics to be covered include:
- Physics
- Basic principles
- Magnets and hardware
- Image formation
- Sequence design
- K-space strategies and rapid imaging
- Respiratory monitoring, navigators and respiratory correction
- Clinical fundamentals
- Set-up, safety and monitoring
- Cardiac anatomy, imaging planes and appearances
- Stress testing including pharmacological stress
- ECG interpretation
- Resuscitation skills
- Comparison with echo, and nuclear techniques
- Cardiac MR
- Ventricular volumes, mass and function
- Stenotic and regurgitant valvular heart disease
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Stress testing
- Myocardial perfusion imaging
- Coronary artery imaging and flow measurement
- Ventricular remodelling
- Congenital heart disease
- Major congenital malformations
- Surgical and interventional strategies
- Functional considerations
- Imaging strategies
- Cardiomyopathies
- Aorta
- Cardiac masses and pericardial disease
- MR Angiography
- Renal arteries
- Thoracic vessels
- Management issues
- Establishment and administration of a CMR unit
- Planning and realisation of a research programme
- Technologist training
- Research
The course will offer:
- Lectures and workshops – Up to 162 hours
- Physics – 30 hours
- Clinical fundamentals– 40 hours
- Clinical CMR teaching – 70 hours
- Clinical experience
- Personal attendance – Minimum 120 cases
- Hands-on scanning
- Case reports – 6 cases
- Archive case review – extensive library
- Clinical reporting – Minimum 100 cases
- Project assignments
- Principles and range of applications
- Specific clinical application project
- Log book to be kept of cases attended
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