The cardiovascular tomography facilities of the Heart and Vascular Institute of the Cleveland Clinic are unique. Few medical centers in the world offer coordinated delivery of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging using state-of-the-art MRI and CT. Both types of imaging are available for routine clinical or clinical investigative pursuits at the Heart and Vascular Institute.
The related activities involve dedicated research and clinical nurses, technologists, physicists and engineers. Supervision of these activities is provided by dedicated cardiovascular imaging physicians who are cross-trained in Cardiovascular Imaging. These physicians from Cardiovascular Medicine and Radiology are recognized nationally and internationally as leaders in cardiovascular tomographic imaging.
Full -time dedicated research nurses coordinate all clinical research activities within the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Radiology.
The Cardiovascular MRI and CT Facilities have vast experience in the following areas of clinical investigations:
- Assessment of myocardial ischemia
- Improved characterization of myocardial viability (e.g. differentiation between hibernating and infarcted myocardium)
- Coronary artery assessment (e.g. plaque-load determination) image-based characterization of myocardial architecture (e.g. detection and quantitation of fibrosis)
- Monitoring of the response of the failing left ventricle to various medical (e.g. resolution of hypertrophy with afterload reduction) and surgical (e.g. improved ejection parameters after partially ventriculectomy) interventions
- Pre-cardiac-surgery planning (e.g. establishment of relationship between coronary distribution and areas of viable myocardium based on MRI and CT image co-registration)
- Arterial-wall imaging (e.g. detection of inflammatory changes of the arterial wall)
Contact:
Annitta J. Morehead, BA, RDCS - Manager
(216) 445-7673
morehea @ ccf.org