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Welcome to this course called Cardiac, MRI

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and ischemic heart disease.

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My name's Bradley Allen.

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I'm an assistant professor at Northwestern University.

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I'm the chief of cardiovascular

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and thoracic imaging in the Department of Radiology, uh,

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which serves Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

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So a couple notes on why I think this course

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is important for you.

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Uh, first, uh, obviously cardiovascular disease, uh,

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remains a leading cause of mortality in the United States,

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uh, and cardiac MR is increasingly utilized in the

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evaluation of these patients with both ischemic

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and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

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The goals of, of this course, from my perspective, are

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to improve radiologist's understanding

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and comfort of CMR interpretation, uh, and then review

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or introduce concepts related to cardiac MR tools

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and techniques for ischemia and infarct evaluation.

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Uh, I also hope to provide an outline

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of some evidence supporting the role of cardiac Mr, uh,

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in these patients.

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And then, uh, obviously go through many case examples

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that highlight, uh, where the techniques are useful.

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Here's just an outline of how, what we'll cover,

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uh, in the course today.

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The first topic will be just an overview

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of coronary artery disease, uh, pathophysiology.

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Then we'll move on to some of the more basic topics

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and ischemia evaluation are

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with cardiac mr, including viability.

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Im, uh, imaging and acute myocardial injury evaluation.

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And then we'll move to some more advanced topics including

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ischemia, evaluation with cardiac mr,

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where we'll focus on both the background

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and evidence associated with this technique.

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And then, uh, dive in on the approach and interpretation.

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Uh, stress perfusion, cardiac, Mr.