The Role of Clinical Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in China: Current Status and the Future

• Main Authors: Shi Chen, MD, Qing Zhang, MD, Yucheng Chen, MD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Compuscript 2016-12-01
• Series: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications
• Subjects: cardiac magnetic resonance; cardiovascular disease; imaging
• Online Access: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cscript/cvia/2016/00000002/00000001/art00006

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases. The state-of-the-art CMR imaging has many advantages in cardiac imaging, including excellent spatial and temporal resolution, unrestricted imaging field, no exposure to ionizing radiation, excellent tissue contrast, and unique myocardial tissue characterization. Clinical CMR imaging is used during the cardiovascular diagnostic workup in the United States and some European countries. Use of CMR imaging is emerging in hospitals in China and has a promising future. This review briefly describes the real-world clinical application of CMR imaging in China and discuss obstacles for its future development.