King’s College London: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Course

The course covers the basic principles of CMR, its clinical indications and role in a multi-modality imaging environment. Delegates will learn in lectures and interactive sessions, at the end of the course they will have a solid understanding of when to refer a patient for Cardiovascular MRI and how to interpret CMR images and reporting. This established 3-day course has been running for 12 years at King’s, with an exceptional faculty of internationally renowned experts in the field of cardiac MRI.

The course has been endorsed by SCMR for level 1 certification. Previous courses have been approved by the Royal College of Physicians for 18 CPD points.

The course will be delivered using a combination of live lectures and interactive sessions, it will cover the following topics:

• CMR safety, including devices and NSF
• CMR planning: key differences to echo
• General MR physics
• Post-processing hand-on sessions
• CMR Methods
• Stable CAD (perfusion, cine, LGE, coronaries and dobutamine)
• Acute CAD
• Cardiomyopathies: DCM, HCM
• Cardiomyopathies: ARVC and degenerative diseases
• Myocarditis and Pericardium
• Post-processing Workshop
• Cardiac Masses and Tumours
• CMR for imaging of valvular disease
• CMR imaging of the aorta and peripheral vasculature
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Parametric mapping (T1, T2, T2*, ECV)
• Case reviews