Echocardiography (Echo), computed tomography (CT), cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), cardiovascular digital subtraction imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging are all necessary in the treatment of congenital heart diseases and cardiomyopathy in children. Diagnostic imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and follow-up of congenital heart diseases, and provides the basis for treatment decisions in this disease. In recent years, the imaging diagnosis mode of congenital heart disease has changed a great deal. Non-invasive Echo is used as a gold standard in the diagnosis of almost all congenital heart diseases. If the diagnosis remains unclear, advanced imaging as cardiac CT, CMR or catheterization can be performed. In recent years, the advent of CMR and CT technology can replace the invasive cardiac catheterization to a certain extent and leads to a progress in non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac diseases in children.
In such an era of "big imaging", how to make individualized diagnosis for different pediatric patients with heart disease based on the advantages and disadvantages of various diagnostic imaging tools and avoiding their shortcomings is a question that clinicians and imaging physicians need to consider together. The purpose of this Research Topic is to make more clinicians aware of new imaging methods, to promote their use in the pediatric population with heart disease, and to establish uniform diagnostic protocols and standards for congenital and acquired heart disease in children.
This Research Topic will cover all scientific research involving non-invasive cardiac imaging in children, from 2D Echo, 3D echo, fetal echo, cardiac CT and CMR imaging, with a special focus on the advances and new developments of the imaging techniques:
• clinical research (image-based predictors/outcomes/follow-up)
• ECHO advanced imaging (echo modalities, image processing algorithms, transesophageal echocardiography, speckle tracking and other ultrasound techniques for new findings in pediatric heart disease)
• CT and MRI New technological aspects (new sequences and image processing algorithms in CT, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), cardiovascular digital subtraction imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging in pediatric heart disease)
• Cardiac catheter
• 3D modelling (3D printing from advanced image modalities, enhanced visualization tools, AR/VR/mixed realities, computational simulation)
Original Research, Systematic Reviews, Case Reports and General Commentaries are welcomed.
Echocardiography (Echo), computed tomography (CT), cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), cardiovascular digital subtraction imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging are all necessary in the treatment of congenital heart diseases and cardiomyopathy in children. Diagnostic imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment and follow-up of congenital heart diseases, and provides the basis for treatment decisions in this disease. In recent years, the imaging diagnosis mode of congenital heart disease has changed a great deal. Non-invasive Echo is used as a gold standard in the diagnosis of almost all congenital heart diseases. If the diagnosis remains unclear, advanced imaging as cardiac CT, CMR or catheterization can be performed. In recent years, the advent of CMR and CT technology can replace the invasive cardiac catheterization to a certain extent and leads to a progress in non-invasive diagnosis of cardiac diseases in children.
In such an era of "big imaging", how to make individualized diagnosis for different pediatric patients with heart disease based on the advantages and disadvantages of various diagnostic imaging tools and avoiding their shortcomings is a question that clinicians and imaging physicians need to consider together. The purpose of this Research Topic is to make more clinicians aware of new imaging methods, to promote their use in the pediatric population with heart disease, and to establish uniform diagnostic protocols and standards for congenital and acquired heart disease in children.
This Research Topic will cover all scientific research involving non-invasive cardiac imaging in children, from 2D Echo, 3D echo, fetal echo, cardiac CT and CMR imaging, with a special focus on the advances and new developments of the imaging techniques:
• clinical research (image-based predictors/outcomes/follow-up)
• ECHO advanced imaging (echo modalities, image processing algorithms, transesophageal echocardiography, speckle tracking and other ultrasound techniques for new findings in pediatric heart disease)
• CT and MRI New technological aspects (new sequences and image processing algorithms in CT, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), cardiovascular digital subtraction imaging, and nuclear medicine imaging in pediatric heart disease)
• Cardiac catheter
• 3D modelling (3D printing from advanced image modalities, enhanced visualization tools, AR/VR/mixed realities, computational simulation)
Original Research, Systematic Reviews, Case Reports and General Commentaries are welcomed.
