Imaging science and cardiology the heart of a good partnership

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Presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 2012 - http://spie.org/mi Reza Razavi King's College London (United Kingdom) Imaging has developed into an essential part of the management of patients with cardiovascular disease. Application of new and innovative imaging applications continues to move this field forward both for better diagnosis and characterization of patients to plan treatments, and in using imaging to guide therapy to get the optimal outcomes. The advances in this area require the close collaboration between the biomedical engineers, physicists and computer scientists who are developing the algorithms and tools, and clinicians who identify the clinical challenges and translate the tools to improve patient care. In this presentation I will illustrate in three examples how this close partnership has been effective in work that I have been involved in over the last 10 years, for patients with congestive heart failure, heart rhythm abnormalities and congenital heart disease. I will also set out some of the challenges that I think will be important to address in the next 10 years where imaging can continue to have major impact in improving the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. Biography: Professor Reza Razavi heads the Divi- sion of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London and is an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Cardiology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also Director of the KCL Medical Engineering Centre of Excellence funded by the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC. Prof. Razavi leads the Imaging and Biomedical Engineering clinical academic group at King's Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre which delivers health care to patients and undertakes health-related science and research. The main focus of Prof. Razavi's research is cardiac MRI particularly in relation to congenital heart disease, XMR (X-ray and MRI) guided cardiac catheterisation and methodological advances to move to faster 3-Dimensional cardiac imaging. His research group at KCL was the first to perform MRI guided cardiac catheterisation in patients and to use XMR in radio-frequency ablation of arrhythmias as well as catheter guided interventions in congenital heart disease.