title: Investigation of cardiomyopathy using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging part 1: Common phenotypes.
abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) has emerged as a useful tertiary imaging tool in the investigation of patients suspected of many different types of cardiomyopathies. CMRI sequences are now of a sufficiently robust quality to enable high spatial and temporal resolution image acquisition. This has led to CMRI becoming an effective non-invasive imaging gold standard for many cardiomyopathies. In this 2-part review, we outline the typical sequences used to image cardiomyopathy, and present the imaging spectrum of cardiomyopathy. Part 1 focuses on the current classification of cardiomyopathy, basic CMRI sequences used in evaluating cardiomyopathy and the imaging spectrum of common phenotypes.
authors.affiliation: Shaunagh McDermott, Ailbhe C O'Neill, Carole A Ridge, Jonathan D Dodd, Cardiac CT and MRI Program, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Shaunagh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McDermott
authors.forename: Ailbhe C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: Carole A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ridge
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Dodd