Advanced Cardiac Imaging

Offered By: Hong Kong Polytechnic University via edX

Course Description

Overview

Understand the basic concepts of using and interpreting cardiac computed tomography (CT) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) through didactic lectures with high quality animations, whilst also having hands-on experience to analyze real clinical cases.

The course is delivered by world-renowned radiologists and cardiologists, and helps you obtain the career advice and expertise in cardiac CT and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This program combines fundamental knowledge and skills with advanced technological developments in the field. Topics such as coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, structural heart disease and congenital heart disease will be covered. Cardiac CT and cardiac MR techniques such as CT angiography (CTA), CT-FFR, CT for transcatheter aortic valve replacement/ implantation (TAVR/ TAVI), stress perfusion CMR for ischemic heart disease, CMR for vascular disease, MRI coronary angiography and CMR for pediatric patients will be delivered with the state of the art animations. Clinical cases will also be provided to allow you to learn post-processing skills for CT and MRI cases.

By the end of this program, you will be equipped with a solid understanding of cardiac CT and cardiac MRI with practical skills on assessing cardiac CT and cardiac MRI images.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT)

First-ever cardiac CT MOOC! Learn essential knowledge for cardiac CT through short videos, downloadable cases & forums. Available in multiple languages and provides material to meet level 1 requirements in Cardiac CT.

这是第一个关于心脏CT的MOOC! 通过播放短视频，下载病例和线上学术研讨会学习心脏CT的解剖学，图像采集技术和分析并报告图像的能力。该课程提供多种语言，并提供满足心脏CT一级要求的材料。

Course 2: Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR)

First ever cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) MOOC! Learn the CMR essentials through short videos, downloadable cases, and web forums. Available in multiple languages.

这是第一个关于心脏磁共振（CMR）的大型网上公开课！您将通过短视频，可下载的病例和线上论坛学习CMR物理、扫描序列和分析图像。本课程提供多种语言版本。

Courses

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* GOLD Award Winner of QS Reimagine Education Award 2021 in Life Sciences! *

This course, developed by the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong in collaboration with committee members of international and national cardiac imaging societies, is for radiologists, cardiologists, radiographers/ technologists and other health professionals who want to learn more about this imaging modality. The course follows the level 1 recommendations of cardiac imaging societies by covering the required topics and providing 50 hands-on cardiac CT cases. Previous experience in cardiac CT is not required.

Learning outcomes:
1. Understanding of the common cardiac CT examinations in order to better understand how to acquire cardiac images and to interpret them.
2. Ability to analyse cardiac CT images at level 1 competency such as calcium score, CT coronary angiography, TAVI.
3. Attain hands-on experience to analyse real cases from a database of 50 clinical cases, using dedicated software, as well as further supplementation through our web forum.
4. Basic understanding of future developments in the cardiac CT field.
5. Provide career advice and thoughts from well-known experts through exclusive interviews.
A MOOC on cardiovascular magnetic resonance will be available on this platform in the near future. Watch this space!

Acknowledgments
This course is supported by the grant from Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen. We would like to thank Miss Benedicte Coiffier and Miss Bohan Fan from the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), for coordinating the online courses and the HKU Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative (TELI) team for producing the educational material. We would like to express our sincere thanks to our colleagues Luo Lin, Chen Yan, and Baroc Ho from the Radiology Division, Department of Medical Imaging, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, for translating all the texts into Chinese and Dr Nitin Ramamurthy and Dr Jhonatan Bringas for their additional help.

*入圍2020年QS全球教育創新大獎之電子學習類別！ *

本课程由香港大学放射诊断科与国内外心脏影像学会的委员会成员合作开发，专为想进一步了解心脏成像技术的放射科医师、心内科及心外科医师、放射技师、工程师和其他医疗健康专业人士而设计。本课程根据心脏成像协会一级建议，涵盖了所需的主题，并提供50个心脏CT真实病例。学习者不要求有心脏CT的过往经验。

学习成果：
1. 了解常见的心脏CT检查，以便更好地掌握如何获取心脏图像并解释它们。
2. 具备心脏CT图像的一级分析能力，如能够进行钙化评分，分析CT冠状动脉造影，TAVI等。
3. 从临床病例数据库中获取50个真实病例，利用专业后处理软件及平台论坛提供的材料进行教学操作以获得实践经验。
4. 对心脏CT领域未来发展的有基本认识。
5. 通过独家采访，了解知名专家对学生的职业建议和想法。
未来将会在这个平台上发布一个关于心血管磁共振（CMR）的课程。请留意关注!

致謝
此课程获得深圳医疗卫生“三名工程”的资助。我们衷心感谢香港大学放射诊断科的Benedicte Coiffier和范博涵协助组织在线课程，以及香港大学科创习新小组制作课程材料。我们非常感谢香港大学深圳医院医学影像中心放射科的同事罗琳、陈燕与何健龙把所有文本翻译成中文。感谢Dr Nitin Ramamurthy 和Dr Jhonatan Bringas的帮助。
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GOLD Award Winner of QS Reimagine Education Award 2021 in Life Sciences!

This course is for radiologists, cardiologists, radiographers/ technologists and other health professionals who want to learn more about cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). Previous experience in CMR is not required.

The learning outcomes are:
1. Understanding of the basic CMR physics and sequences in order to better understand how to acquire cardiac images and how to assess commonly used sequences (eg. Steady state free precession sequence, phase contrast to measure blood flow, T2* and magnetic resonance angiography).
2. Understand the safety profile and risks of contrast agents used in CMR.
3. Ability to analyse CMR images at SCMR level 1 competency such as stress perfusion, late gadolinium enhancement and post-processing for ventricular function.
4. Attain hands-on experience to analyse real clinical cases from a database of 50 clinical cases, using dedicated CMR software, as well as further supplementation through our web forum.
5. Basic understanding of future developments in the CMR field such as exercise CMR, artificial intelligence, feature tracking, T1 and T2 mapping.
6. Provide career advice and thoughts from well-known CMR experts through exclusive interviews.
A MOOC on cardiac computed tomography (CT) is also available on this platform in order to introduce you to this complementary cardiovascular imaging technique.

本课程是与国际心血管磁共振学会（SCMR）合作开发的，适合想要深度了解心血管磁共振成像（CMR）的放射科医师，心内科及心外科医师，放射科技师/工程师和其他医疗健康专业人士。而无需具备CMR经验。

学习目标如下：
1. 了解基本的CMR物理和序列知识，以便更好地了解如何获取心脏图像以及如何评估常用序列（例如，稳态自由进动序列，相位对比血流测量，T2 *和磁共振血管造影）。
2. 了解CMR造影剂的安全性和风险。
3. 具备SCMR 1级CMR图像分析能力，例如负荷灌注，延迟强化和心室功能后处理。
4. 临床病例数据库中获取50个真实病例，利用专业后处理软件及学习平台提供的资料进行教学操作，获得实践经验。
5. 对CMR领域未来发展的基本了解，如人工智能、特征追踪，以及T1和T2定量成像。
6. 通过独家访谈获取知名CMR专家对学生的职业建议和想法。
此平台上还提供心脏计算机断层扫描（CT）的公开课，以全面介绍这两种优势互补的心血管成像技术。

Taught by

Sponsor 1, Sponsor 2, Guest speaker: Dr. Suhny Abbara, Guest speaker: Dr. Ed Nicol, Guest speaker: Dr. Shihua Zhao, Guest speaker: Dr. Elsie Nguyen, Guest speaker: Dr. Mini Pakkal, Guest speaker: Dr. Jonathan Weir-McCall, Sponsor 3, Sponsor 4, Sponsor 5, Guest speaker: Dr. Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Guest speaker: Dr. Carmen WS Chan, Guest Speaker: Dr. Charles Hing-Chiu Chang, Guest speaker: Dr. Stephen Chi-Wai Cheung, Guest speaker: Dr. Kenneth KY Cheung, Guest speaker: Dr. Calvin Woon-Loong Chin, Guest speaker: Dr. Vanessa M. Ferreira, Guest speaker: Prof. Dudley Pennell, Guest speaker: Prof. Steffen E. Petersen, Dr. Ming-Yen Ng and Dr. Varut Vince Vardhanabhuti