The clinical applications of cardiac MRI for defining viability of myocardium, congenital heart diseases, and various other heart diseases are evolving due to the advantage of the technique's excellent spatial resolution, Its large field of view, unli...
The clinical applications of cardiac MRI for defining viability of myocardium, congenital heart diseases, and various other heart diseases are evolving due to the advantage of the technique's excellent spatial resolution, Its large field of view, unlimited imaging planes, CINE imaging and delayed enhancement with contrast enable the depiction of complex lesions, abnormal movement of chamber, myocardial ischemia and infarction. Recently, guidelines for when this technique should be employed in clinical practice have revised on 2004. Therefore the aim of this article (from a Consensus Panel by the Working Group on CMR of the European Society of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance) is to update these guidelines tor cardiovascular radiologist, cardiologist, and cardiac surgeon at Chosun University Hospital.