ABSTRACT
The previous chapters in this book and in Heart Mechanics: Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Mathematical Modeling, Pulse Sequences, and Image Analysis addressed various technical developments for measuring heart mechanics using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), which took place over the past thirty years. Although most of the chapters addressed some clinical applications, the purpose of that coverage was to illustrate the techniques’ capabilities and areas of strength. Now that all technical details about different imaging techniques have been illustrated, we devote this and the next chapter to covering various clinical application and studies that used these techniques to gain better understanding of the heart function in health and disease. The term “CMR tagging” is used here in its general perspective to mean any of the basic or advanced techniques covered in the two books for measuring heart mechanics. It should be noted that the reason that some cardiovascular topics and diseases have not been covered in this and the following chapters is not because of their less importance than the covered topics, but because they have not been yet investigated in clinical studies using CMR tagging. Therefore, the topics covered here could be a good starting point for more in-depth studies of these topics or totally new topics.
