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Sunrise Educational Course
Image Reconstruction
Room 710A 07:00-08:00
Non-Cartesian Trajectories & Off-Resonance Correction
07:00 Fast Image Reconstruction from Non-Cartesian Data
Craig H. Meyer
07:30 Off-Resonance Effects & Correction
Bradley P. Sutton
Sunrise Educational Course
Absolute Beginners' Guide to Anatomical & Functional MRI of the Brain
Tuesday AM
Room 710B 07:00-08:00 Moderator: Thomas M. Talavage
07:00 Functional MRI
Christina Triantafyllou
07:30 Functional MRI Analysis
Robert W. Cox
Plenary Lectures
Diagnosis & Triage of Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Emergency Room
Plenary Hall 08:15-09:30 Organizers: David E. Sosnovik & Matthias Stuber
08:15 190. Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Scope of the Problem
Warren J. Manning
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) encompasses a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients presenting with non-traumatic chest pain. ACS
includes the clinical syndromes of STEMI, NSTEMI, and unstable angina. Despite a careful history, physical examination, and
conventional testing with biomarkers, many patients without ACS are unnecessarily admitted to the hospital, while others with ACS are
sometimes discharged from the ED to experience high morbidity and mortality. For low and moderate risk ACS patients with inconclusive
testing, cardiac imaging often plays a valuable role in the identification of those with ACS and safe discharge for those with non-life
threatening conditions
08:25 191. Cardiac CT: The Imaging Technique of Choice?
Udo Hoffmann
Massachusetts General Hosptial, Boston, MA, USA
Cardiac CT provides new insights into cardiac and coronary morphology and function and may be an efficient triage tool for patients presenting with acute
chest pain to the Emergency Department.
08:40 192. Cardiac MRI in the Emergency Room
Andrew E. Arai
National Institutes of Health/NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA
The diagnosis and triage of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the emergency room (ER) is a complex and expensive medical problem that
can benefit from incorporation of imaging into clinical practice guidelines and treatment algorithms. Cardiac MRI can assess many
parameters important in the diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with possible ACS. More importantly, several clinical trials have
shown that cardiac MRI is feasible, diagnostically accurate, complimentary to conventional clinical tools, and even cost effective in the
emergency room setting.
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