Heart & Vascular Disease

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

The Medical Foundation grant to Dr Gemma Figtree assisted with the establishment of the new Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMRI) Research Unit, based at the Kolling Research Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital.

The combination of a new CMRI facility and the team of physicians and scientisits it has brought together will support advances in CMRI at the level of acquisition, analysis and clinical application.

CMRI has the potential to privide optimal diagnostic and research information with minimal exposure of the patient to radiation or invasive procedures, however, the application of MRI to the heart is still evolving.