Jun 3, 2019
[ Archived Post ] Guidelines and protocols for cardiovascular magnetic resonance in children and adults with congenital heart disease: SCMR expert consensus group on congenital heart disease
Please note that this post is for my own educational purpose.
This paper → shows the guideline for MR image for heart disease.
CMR → images have been developed to aid the diagnosis for doctors → it is safer. (the doctors should review the patient history for successful imaging). (young children lose heat faster than adults → so this needs to be dealt with correctly).
The patient might be in the machine for 60 minutes → we might need to let the patient go to bed. (babies →we can just feed them → and they will go to bed). (motion artifact → should be the highest value to prevent). (there are small tricks to remove noise and artifacts). (very interesting read → there are so many considerations just to take CMR).
There are some methods → to capture the image faster. (there are some advantages for different images → however → for a smaller patient → we should use a smaller voxel size → this whole process is very complex and need specialization).
Having a good contrast between the regions → are a good idea for medical images. (since different images have different advantages → it is a good idea → to know exactly when to use them).
Different parameters → for different patients. (removing the artifacts are the key aspect of what we want). (Even continuous on for ECG data capturing).
How contrast images look like.
The younger patient has a faster heartbeat → so we need to be careful about that. (different measurements can be driven → using different images).
Very interesting methods of image accusations → depending on the measurement → some measurements have to be more closely monitored.
Even in the pre-processing stage → the one who is doing this → have to be very careful.
Even operating those machines → we need to be careful → about how the patient is located and lied down. (since different scanners → have different processing software as well). (again → removing noise and artifacts are the key idea).
Holding breath → is also one way to reduce noise in the image. (multiple methods → exist → really impressive on how they know this). (this was a good read → did not know there are so many different tricks to improve image quality)
