Radiographer Courses

King’s College London: CMR – Theory and Practical Applications for Radiographers

Last event date: December 6, 2023

Venue: King's College London

Dates:      Wednesday 4 – Thursday 5 December 2024

Venue:     London or Online MS Teams

Further information and registration details: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/cmr-theory-practical-applications-radiographers

The course covers basic MRI safety/physics and focuses on the theory and practical skills involved with carrying out a simple CMR procedure as well as the more complex scans such as Perfusion imaging and Aortogram. We provide an exceptional faculty of internationally renowned experts in the field of cardiac MRI.

Topics include:

• Clinical Value of CMR
• MR Safety/CMR Physics
• How to/ ‘Principles of Basic CMR
• Aortogram, Flows
• Perfusion Scanning
• T1/T2 maps and ECV
• Late Gad enhancement
• The ‘difficult patient’ vs the ‘difficult scanner’
• Post Processing
• Setting up a CMR Service
• Device Scanning: Where to Start
• Device scanning: case studies, tips, and tricks
• Congenital scanning and case studies
• 4D Flow
• Tumor Scanning
• Common cardiomyopathies: ARVC;HCM;DCM
• Advance MRI 7T/Free Max
• Post-processing-Complex cases
• In person attendees will join a live scanning session

Feedback from previous courses:

• Thank you for organising a very informative course
• Thanks for letting me be a part of this course! It was very helpful.
• I learned a lot about late gadolinium enhancement especially during the interactive session I found this most useful.
• Lots and lots. Particularly enjoyed the presentations on scanning devices, stress perfusion and principals of basic CMR. We are starting a cardiac service from scratch and this course has given me a lot of ideas and hints and tips to use and incorporate into practice.
• It was overall a good refresh of all CMR. Will be trying Dark Blood images LGE
• Most of the cardiac material is as new to me and has given me loads to develop on.
• Yes, learnt lots of new and useful things. Such as discussion on angiography techniques; free breathing/real time imaging techniques; and flow/venc positioning in the congenital imaging talk.
• LGE by Dr Adriana Villa and Tissue characterization by Dr Tevfik are fantastic.
• I learnt many new things, especially regarding anatomy, planning and clinical cases
• Practical planning and pathology. Good mix of radiographer and cardiologist presenters.
• Learnt plenty such as planning improvements and pathology detection. Also, what Doctors are looking for in scans and an insight into now they diagnose.
• Just beginning to learn about CMR this gave a great overview.
• Thank you for printing the notes! Really happy with the help. Thank you.
• Excellent course, good range of topics covering different aspects of CMR.
• Very good level of teaching, good balance of basic & advanced.