← All decks
The first 25 slides, exactly as they appear. The full deck has 112 content slides.
Radiology
Introduction to Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Imaging Techniques
Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
What’s inside
9 sections · 112 slides
Overview
- What this topic covers
- Imaging techniques covered
Cardiac Position and Situs
Where the heart lies and how organs are arranged
- Heart position terms
- Normal chest radiograph
- Situs solitus
- Situs inversus totalis
- Kartagener syndrome with situs inversus
- Situs ambiguous and isomerism
- Situs classification
Chambers and Great Vessels
Right and left heart, pulmonary vessels, aorta, coronaries, conduction
- Right atrium
- Cardiothoracic anatomy: frontal view
- Right atrial landmarks
- Right ventricle
- Right ventricle landmarks
- Cutaway views of the right atrium and right ventricle
- Right versus left ventricle
- Bisection through the long axis of the heart
- Pulmonary arteries
- Pulmonary veins
- Partial versus total anomalous venous return
- Left atrium
- Left ventricle
- Left ventricle inflow and outflow
- Cutaway views of the left ventricle and left atrium
- Aorta and aortic valve
- Coronary arteries
- Ligamentum arteriosum
- Conduction system
- Conduction pathway
Cardiac Physiology
The cardiac cycle: diastole and systole
- The cardiac cycle
- Cardiac cycle phases
- Diastole
- Systole
Chest Radiography
Projections, heart size, and chamber enlargement
- Chest radiography basics
- Frontal projection borders
- Lateral projection borders
- Cardiothoracic ratio
- 0.5
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left atrial enlargement: indirect signs
- Left atrial enlargement on chest radiograph
- Right atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular enlargement
- Left ventricular enlargement
- Right ventricular enlargement
- Right atrial and right ventricular dilation
Echocardiography
Transthoracic windows and transesophageal views
- Echocardiography overview
- Transthoracic windows and views
- Echocardiography: parasternal long-axis view
- Echocardiography: apical four-chamber view
- Transesophageal echocardiography
Nuclear Imaging
Perfusion, function, and inflammation
- Nuclear imaging overview
- Radionuclide ventriculography
- Myocardial perfusion imaging
- MPI defect patterns
- PET imaging
- FDG-PET in cardiac sarcoidosis
Cardiac CT
ECG synchronization, calcium scoring, and coronary CTA
- Cardiac CT overview
- Prospective ECG-triggering
- Step-and-shoot and single axial
- Prospective ECG-triggering: step-and-shoot
- Prospective ECG-triggering: single axial acquisition
- High-pitch helical prospective
- Prospective gating: high-pitch helical technique
- Retrospective ECG gating
- Retrospective ECG gating
- ECG dose modulation
- Retrospective gating with ECG dose modulation
- Prospective versus retrospective gating
- Coronary artery calcium score
- Coronary artery calcium score CT
- Coronary CT angiography
- Coronary CT angiography
Cardiac MRI
Structure, function, flow, and tissue characterization
- Cardiac MRI overview
- Gadolinium safety
- MRI and implanted devices
- Cardiac MRI indications and workflow
- Cardiac imaging planes
- Cardiac MRI imaging planes
- Cardiac MRI planes
- Cine imaging
- Volume and function
- Mitral regurgitation on cine MRI
- Phase contrast MRI
- Phase contrast MRI
- 4D flow MRI
- 4D flow phase contrast MRI
- Late gadolinium enhancement
- Late gadolinium enhancement: normal myocardium
- LGE technique
- Myocardial infarct on LGE MRI
- T2-weighted imaging
- Myocarditis on cardiac MRI
- T2 imaging
- T2 imaging in iron overload
- Parametric mapping
- T1 mapping
- T1 mapping in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- T2 mapping
- T2 mapping in stress cardiomyopathy
- Perfusion imaging
- Stress perfusion MRI and catheter angiography
- Key takeaways
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology