Course Directors: Dr Balazs Ruzsics PhD, Royal Liverpool Hospital Dr Vishal Sharma MRCP, Royal Liverpool Hospital

Dr Binukrishnan FRCR, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Venue: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool, L1 9DA

United Kingdom Contact: cardiacimagingliverpool@gmail.com

More info available: www.cardiacimagingliverpool.com

2 Day Course in Cross-sectional Cardiac Imaging October 6-7th 2012

This course is aimed at trainees in cardiology and radiology and radiographers working in Cardiac

CT and Cardiac MRI

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME DAY 1 CARDIAC MRI 08:30 – 09:00 Registration 09:00 – 09:10 Introduction Dr V Sharma and B Ruzsics 09:10 – 09:50 Indications for Cardiac MRI - Dr V Sharma 09:50 – 10:30 Basic MR Physics Dr Grant Heatlie

10:45 – 11:15 Cardiac MRI Imaging Planes and Techniques Dr. C McCann 11:15 –11:45 Ventricular function assessment Dr B Ruzsics 11:45 – 12:15 Ischaemic Heart Disease I (Oedema imaging –

Perfusion) Dr B Ruzsics

13:00 – 13:30 Ischaemic Heart Disease II (Function - Viability) Dr V Sharma

13.30 – 14.00 Valvular Heart Disease Dr B Ruzsics 14:00 – 14:30 Cardiomyopathy I – Dr B Rhamakrishnan

14:45 – 15:15 Cardiomyopathy II - Dr V Sharma 15:15 – 16:00 CMR in Congenital Heart Disease Dr R Steeds 16:00 – 16:30 Cardiac MRI Case Review I: IHD (Function –

Perfusion) 16:30 – 17:00 Cardiac MRI Case Review II: IHD (Perfusion –

Viability) 17:00 – 17:30 Cardiac MRI Case Review: Valvular and Aortic

disease 17:30 – 18:00 Cardiac MRI Case Review: Cardiomyopathy

(infiltrative cardiac disease)

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME DAY 1 CARDIAC CT 08:30 – 09:00 Registration 09:00 – 09:10 Introduction – Dr V Sharma and Dr B Ruzsics 09:10 – 09:40 Indications for Cardiac CT and Nice Guidance

Dr V Sharma 09:40 – 10:10 Technical Principles of Computed Tomography:

Dr Binukrishnan 10:10 – 10:40 Patient Preparation and Set Up – Ms J

Houghton

10:55 – 11:30 Coronary artery anatomy Dr V Sharma 11:30 – 12:00 Coronary Calcium Scoring – Dr V Sharma

13:00 – 14:00 Cardiac CT: Clinical Indications and findings –

Dr Ruzsics 14:00 – 14:45 Cardiac CT: Techniques and Protocols

Dr Ruzsics  

15:00 – 15:30 Cardiac CT: Functional assessment Dr B Ruzsics

15:30 – 16:15 Aortic Pathology – Dr C McCann 16:15 – 16:40 Anomalous Coronary Arteries Dr Binukrishnan 16:50 – 17:30 Cases: Normal Anatomy, Variants, Anomalies 17:30 – 18:15 Cases : Coronary Artery Disease 18:15 – 18:20 Close