Advanced Cardiac Imaging

You’ll become proficient using imaging tests to diagnose and evaluate patients with cardiac disease or suspected cardiac disease.

You’ll participate in every aspect of imaging, specifically:

• administering medications prior to the test
• selecting the optimal imaging protocol
• acquiring and processing the images
• interpreting the images (supervised by an attending physician)
• reporting your findings

Our program performs 1,000 cardiac CTs and up to 400 cardiac MRIs per year.

We offer you COCATS level 2 training in cardiac CT. To achieve this level of competence, you’d take this elective at least twice.

• 50-75 CTA studies
• 20-30 MRI studies

• four weeks in years 2 or 3
• also available to first-year fellows strongly interested in imaging
• fellows can repeat this elective

• equal inpatient-outpatient mix

Patients present with:

• chest pain
• ischemic cardiomyopathy
• suspected myocarditis or cardiac sarcoidosis
• cardiomyopathy of unclear etiology
• fibrosis
• suspected cardiac masses or thrombus
• congenital heart disease