The North American Society for Cardiac Imaging (NASCI) is an
international organization dedicated to the advancement of cardiovascular imaging.

To browse available invited speaker PDF files of their presentations, please select the title of their presentation below (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required):

001 Introduction to Cardiac MR
Charles B. Higgins, MD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

002 Introduction to Cardiac CT
Albert de Roos, MD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

004 Evaluation of Cardiac Physiology by Tomographic Imaging
Rainer Rienmuller, MD, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

005 Cardiac MR Physics and Protocols
Oliver M. Weber, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

006 Cardiac CT Physics and Protocols
Sandra Halliburton, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

011 Honorary Lecture: 3.0 vs. 1.5 Tesla MR Imaging: Diagnostic and Technical Considerations
Robert R. Edelman, MD, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, IL, USA.

RN Breakout Training Session: Pharmacological Stress Testing in the MR Setting
William Culp, RN, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

015 Acute Coronary Syndrome and Infarction
Gilbert L. Raff, MD, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA.

016 Perfusion Reserve in Asymptomatic Individuals
Michael Jerosch-Herold, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

017 Myocardial Viability Revisited
F. Scott Pereles, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

024 Myocardial Ischemia
Victor Ferrari, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

025 Coronary MRA and Vessel Wall Assessment: Recent Developments
Debiao Li, PhD, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

026 CT Coronary Angiography
Thomas Gerber, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

028 16-Slice CT and MRI Comparison in Detection and Sizing of Myocardial Infarction
Yeon Hyeon Choe, MD, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

029 Coronary CT and Risk Assessment
Ralph Haberl, MD, Hospital Muenchen-Pasing, Germany, München, Germany.

051 Value of Cardiac MR/CT for Pediatric Cardiology
Margaret M. Samyn, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

057 Contrast Agents - Drug Trials
E. Kent Yucel, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

058 MR Interventional Perspectives
Carsten Rickers, MD, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

059 MR Molecular Imaging and Gene Therapy: Cardiac Applications
Glenn Walter, MD, University of Florida Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA

062 Advances in Cardiac CT Imaging: 64-Slice Scanner
Konstantin Nikolaou, MD, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

063 Advancements in LightSpeedVCT (Volume CT) for Cardiac Imaging
David Dowe, MD, Atlantic Medical Imaging, Galloway, NJ, USA

064 Coronary Artery CTA: Validation and Implementation in the Community Setting (the Radiologist's Perspective)
Rans Douglas, MD, Wake Medical, Raleigh, NC, USA.

066 Cardiovascular 3 Tesla Imaging - GE Medical Systems
Krishna S. Nayak, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

067 Cardiovascular 3 Tesla Imaging - Philips Medical Systems
Matthias Stuber, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

080 Assessment of Early and Intermediate Atherosclerosis with MR
Chun Yuan, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

081 Assessment of Arterial Remodeling and Regression of Plaque
Paul Schoenhagen, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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