Cardiovascular Imaging Recommended Reading

Echocardiography

• Clinical Application of Echocardiography
• Contrast Echocardiography
• Stress echo (encompassing Doppler flow stress )
• Deformation imaging (encompassing twist and torsion)
• Real-time three-dimensional Echocardiography
• Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Valvular Heart Diseases
• Echo and dyssynchrony
• Setting up the echo lab
• Atrial assessment
• Dimensions, volumes and mass
• Doppler derived non-invasive haemodynamics and recommendations on specific diseases
• Systolic function and cardiac mechanics
• Diastolic Function
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Primary Cardiomyopathies
• Arterial Systemic hypertension
• Right heart and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Pericardial Disease
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Cardiac masses and potential sources of emboli
• Diseases of the Aorta
• Emergency echocardiography
• Intervention guiding echocardiography
• Quality Assessment in Echocardiography
  
  

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Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

• Physics, Safety, Devices, methodology
• Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Myocardial disease (Cardiomyopathies, Myocarditis, and Non-ischaemic Heart Disease)
• Pericardium
• Vascular disease
• Valvular heart disease
• Cardiac masses/tumors
• Congenital Heart Disease (and Adult Congenital Heart Disease)
• Incidental findings
• Novel techniques
• Online resources

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Nuclear Cardiology & Cardiac Computed Tomography

Nuclear Cardiology

• Physics, Instrumentation, Tracers
• Radiation safety
• Methodology
• Clinical Imaging Protocols
• Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Cardiomyopathies, Other

Cardiac CT

• Physics, quality and safety, radiation dose
• Coronary CT angiography
• Coronary calcium imaging
• Atherosclerotic plaque imaging
• Congenital heart disease and myocardial imaging
• Functional imaging
• Valvular heart disease

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