Any good CMR textbooks for beginners?

[shantivel]

Hi ,
I am a beginner in CMR who wishes to buy her first book relating to the field... Have some christmas money left over..... Any suggestions?... ( Like the forum by the way)..

[moon]

Hi. Three good beginner books are:
CMR update
and
CMR made easy
and
oxford handbook of cmr

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[jfernandes4125]

I would also definitely check the SCMR site on the Online Education section. Included there:

"How I Do" Series
An educational series with embedded movies demonstrating how SCMR members perform specific CMR scans.

* How I Do" CMR Scanning Safely (Elisabeth Burman, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK)
* "How I Do" a CMR Volume Study ( James Moon, The Heart Hospital, London)
* "How I do Iron overload and Thalassemia" (Mark Westwood, The Heart Hospital, London)
* "How we do CMR in acute infarction" (Derek Hausenloy, The Heart Hospital, London)
* "How I do CMR of valvular heart disease" (Saul Myerson, Oxford CMR unit)
* "How I do CMR of the Aorta" (Saul Myerson, Oxford CMR unit)
* "How I do" CMR of repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (Sonya Babu-Narayan, Royal Brompton Hospital)
* "How I do" CMR after atrial redirection surgery (Sonya Babu-Narayan, Royal Brompton Hospital)
* "How I do" anomalous coronaries (Gavin Bainbridge, Sven Plein, John Greenwood, Leeds)
* Late enhancement imaging quiz, provided by James Moon — Questions here, Answers here
* "How we do Dobutamine Stress CMR" (Ashraf Hamdan, Ingo Paetsch and Eike Nagel)
* "How we do Perfusion CMR" (Robert Manka, Rolf Gebker, Eike Nagel)
* "How I do" CMR in DCM (Sanjay Prasad, Royal Brompton Hospital)
* "How I do" CMR in HCM (Sanjay Prasad, Royal Brompton Hospital)
* "How I Do" CMR in Pericardial Disease (Brian J. Schietinger and Christopher M. Kramer)
* "How I Do" CMR of ARVC/D (David A. Bluemke, Johns Hopkins)
* How We Perform Delayed Enhancement Imaging (Ray Kim and Bob Judd, Duke University)
* "How I Do" Myocardial Perfusion (Christopher Klassen and Norbert Wilke, University of Florida Health Science Center)

MRI Physics

* MRI Physics Lectures (provided by GE Medical Systems)
* MR Physics and Image Quality
* Module 1: Nuclear Structure
* Module 5: MR Equipment
* MR Safety
* Module 6: Slice Selection
* Module 8: IQ: Acquisition Time
* Module 12: Spin Echo
* Module 15: GRE / SPGR
* Magnets, Spins, and Resonances (provided by Siemens, large file, 3420K, 238 pages).

[tom.burchell]

Also, you could have a look at 'From picture to proton' which is a different way of learning but some people prefer it...

[drflett]

This atlas is good. Its expensive though and might be more of a reference book for your institution to think about getting.

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Cardiovascu ... 1416061355

Andy

[inparadisium]

If you like learning by cases there is:
Cardiovascular MRI in Practice - A Teaching File Approach by Grizzard, Judd and Kim (Publisher - Springer)
This comes with a CD with the 150 cases (all complete CMR studies) for you to review on Mac or PC and the book provides the explanation.
The retail price is expensive but I got a 2nd hand one via Amazon.

[mattlovell]

Hi,

Has anyone else read or have an opinion on the Oxford CMR handbook? I am leaning towards buying it as I have found the other handbooks for pacing and echo to be quite helpful. However, the cardiac catheter handbook was not very useful.

Thanks,

Matt.

[ksteel]

Any opinion on the SCMR book that was sold at the registration desk? Anyone else look at it? No offense to the authors in the book but it seems like there are plenty of 'Intro to CMR' books out already.

KS