_Half-day Symposium on Cardiac Imaging _

The Symposium is aimed at a general audience, including cardiologists, radiologists and paediatricians, as well as scientists and engineers who have an interest in non-invasive cardiac imaging. Admission is free and all are warmly invited to attend.

9.00 – Welcome and Introduction – Dr Jamil Mayet

_Research at Hammersmith Hospital _

9.05 – New Dimensions in Echocardiography – Prof Petros Nihoyannopoulos

9.20 – Tissue Characterisation with Cardiac MR – Dr Declan O’Regan

9.35 – Functional Neonatal Cardiac MR – Prof David Edwards

9.50 – Contribution of PET to Cardiovascular Research – Prof Paolo Camici

10.05 – Tea and coffee

_Research at St Mary’s Hospital _

10.30 – Wave intensity analysis – Prof Alun Hughes

10.45 – Coronary artery CT scanning – Dr Andrew Wright

11.00 – Computational Fluid Dynamics – Prof Yun Xu / Prof Simon Thom

11.15 – Cardiac and vascular ultrasound – Dr Jamil Mayet

Keynote Speaker

11.30 – Imaging theme research within Imperial College, Faculty of Medicine – Prof David Edwards

Followed by Question and Answer session

12.30 Closing remarks – Dr Declan O’Regan