Imaging
Imaging
The Imaging area strives to deliver the best possible imaging services for patients with cardiovascular diseases. To achieve this, guideline-recommended current state-of-the-art methods are incorporated and new imaging techniques and methods are developed for clinical use. The questions being pursued concern both common and uncommon cardiovascular diseases for which UMC Utrecht is a tertiary referral center. These include but are not limited to ischemic and non-ischemic hereditary and acquired cardiomyopathies, congenital heart disease, heart failure, aorta, complex peripheral arterial disease, brain aneurysms, hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, multisystem aspects of cardiovascular disease such as heart-brain and bone-cardiovascular interactions. In addition, specific groups with elevated cardiovascular risk are studied, such as women with reproductive disorders. Finally, cardiovascular risk in healthy athletes is studied. In all of these areas there is a need for fast, reliable and comprehensive imaging. As such, there is a strong focus on development of new cardiac and vascular CT and MR imaging techniques and post-processing methods and bringing these to the clinic.
Image-Guided Interventions
Minimally invasive therapies are inextricably linked to image control (operating without open incisions). Surgical procedures guided by optical imaging, X-rays and especially MRIs will play an increasingly prominent role in interventions in Circulatory Health.
Principal Investigators A-M
Principal Investigators N-Z
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