Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH, FRCPC
Associate Professor and Vice Chair Research University Medical Imaging Toronto | Director of Cardiac Imaging Research Department of Medical Imaging, University of TorontoMain Content
Cardiac MR
Gain expert insights and enhance your confidence in interpreting cardiac MR readings.
ACR Education Center to transition from on-site training in 2026.
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Course Overview
This three-day course is designed to optimize clinical practice skills by providing intense training in interpreting cardiac MR examinations under the supervision of expert faculty.
Participants will have access to over 150 cardiac MR and vascular MR angiography cases for review. Post-processing techniques and interpretation will be emphasized. The course also covers technical considerations for obtaining optimal examinations for interpretation.
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify normal cardiovascular anatomy and normal anatomic variants.
- Determine the spectrum of ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies, including function, rest and stress perfusion and viability.
- Evaluate pericardial constriction, cardiac masses, valvular disease, pulmonary veins and cardiac shunts.
- Identify new techniques such as assessment of area at risk and myocardial edema with T2W imaging.
- Recognize imaging manifestations of cardiovascular disease, and the complementary role of MRI to echocardiography, CT and cardiac catheterization in therapeutic decision making.
- Apply the technical basis of Cardiac MR, including hardware requirements, sequence selection and optimization, and technical limitations.
- Interpret vascular MRA, including aorta, renal, carotid, visceral and peripheral vessels.
- Apply post-processing techniques for functional, flow and angiographic evaluation.
- Review ongoing technical and clinical developments in the field of Cardiac MR.
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If you have completed or are registered for an upcoming Cardiac MR course, access the course materials.
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Excellent teaching by the faculty. I really appreciate the time that each spent discussing not only 'textbook' style teaching, but also addressing how they would approach a case in practice.
