Non-invasive cardiac imaging is the most important diagnostic tool in patients with congenital heart disease and amazing progress has been made in past years in terms of technological advances and diagnostic performance.
Multimodality approaches, including Echocardiography, cardiac MR and cardiac CT imaging are more and more valued and supported in order to perform complete and comprehensive studies including anatomy, physiopathology and hemodynamics of each specific congenital heart disease case.
These technological advances allow avoiding invasiveness and x-ray radiation procedures as complex diagnostic and follow up examinations of patients with congenital heart diseases can be achieved without cardiac catheterisation.
This Research Topic will cover all scientific research involving non-invasive cardiac imaging in congenital heart disease, from 2D Echo, 3D echo, fetal echo, cardiac CT and cardiac MR imaging, with a special focus on advanced technologies:
-clinical research (image based predictors/outcomes)
-technological aspects (new sequences, echo modalities, image processing algorithms)
-advanced and new parameters (anatomical or functional biomarkers)
-3D modelling (3D printing from advanced image modalities, enhanced visualisation tools, AR/VR/mixed realities, computational simulation)
-Research studies with imaging applied to cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology
Non-invasive cardiac imaging is the most important diagnostic tool in patients with congenital heart disease and amazing progress has been made in past years in terms of technological advances and diagnostic performance.
Multimodality approaches, including Echocardiography, cardiac MR and cardiac CT imaging are more and more valued and supported in order to perform complete and comprehensive studies including anatomy, physiopathology and hemodynamics of each specific congenital heart disease case.
These technological advances allow avoiding invasiveness and x-ray radiation procedures as complex diagnostic and follow up examinations of patients with congenital heart diseases can be achieved without cardiac catheterisation.
This Research Topic will cover all scientific research involving non-invasive cardiac imaging in congenital heart disease, from 2D Echo, 3D echo, fetal echo, cardiac CT and cardiac MR imaging, with a special focus on advanced technologies:
-clinical research (image based predictors/outcomes)
-technological aspects (new sequences, echo modalities, image processing algorithms)
-advanced and new parameters (anatomical or functional biomarkers)
-3D modelling (3D printing from advanced image modalities, enhanced visualisation tools, AR/VR/mixed realities, computational simulation)
-Research studies with imaging applied to cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology