Real-time Imaging in Arrhythmias

Speaker:        Dr. Yuchi Han
                Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division
                University of Pennsylvania

Title:          "Real-time Imaging in Arrhythmias"

Date:           Monday, 26 October 2015

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

We will first introduce the assessment of cardiac function and the current
gold-standard for cardiac functional assessment which is ECG-gated
breath-hold cine MRI imaging and the challenges in imaging irregular
rhythms. We will then present our work using 2D Gold-Angle real-time
imaging to first define the necessary frame rate and exposure time for
functional imaging and then utilizing ECG information to combine beats to
assess ventricular function during an irregular rhythm - sinus with
premature ventricular contractions, both the sinus beats and the premature
beats.


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Biography:

Dr. Yuchi Han is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular
Division, University of Pennsylvania. She received her Doctor of Medicine
degree from Harvard Medical School after graduating with a Bachelor of
Arts from Princeton University in physics. After medical residency at
Stanford University, she returned to Boston for research and clinical
cardiology fellowships at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She
earned her Master's in Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation from
Harvard Medical School. She was a recipient of the American College of
Cardiology Foundation Career Development award. Dr. Han focuses her
clinical and research work on cardiac imaging. Her main research areas
include valvular heart disease, right ventricular function, real-time
imaging, and myocardial tissue characterization. She has published 50
original research articles, editorials, reviews, and book chapters. Dr.
Han is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the
International Outreach Committee of the Society for Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance.