The North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of cardiovascular imaging.

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1891 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191
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(703) 476-1350
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(703) 264-2093

Save-the-Dates!
NASCI’s 37th Annual Meeting 2009
October 2-6, 2009
Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate
Orlando, Florida
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HIGHLIGHTS
North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI)
36th Annual Meeting

Congratulations AHA CVRI Council / NASCI
2008 Young Investigator Award Winners!

1st Place – Balazs Ruszics
Adenosine Stress Dual-Energy CT of the Heart for Diagnosing Myocardial Ischemia and Viability Compared with Cardiac MRI and SPECT: Initial Experience

2nd Place – Dorota Kedziorek
Cell Viability Assessment with Bioluminescence Assay of Microencapsulated Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Rabbit Model of Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

3rd Place – Kamran Akram
Role of Increased FDG Uptake in the Abdominal Aneurysm Wall (AAA) in Predicting the AAA Expansion Rate

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Congratulations Bayer Poster Awards NASCI 2008!

1st Place – Michael Hope
Helices and Vortices: Clinical Evaluation of Aortic Coarctation with 4D Flow MR Imaging

2nd Place – Tarun Pandey
Cardiac MRI Grading of Diastolic Dysfunction: Mitral Valve E-wave Upslope, Flow-Velocity and Morphological Parameters: Comparison to Echocardiography

3rd Place – Günther Schneider
Contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography (CE-MRA) for Detection of Reperfused Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVM) after Coil Embolization in Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT)

Honorable Mentions:

Joe K. Ahn
Nomogram for Aortic Root Dimensions Using Contrast 64-Detector Cardiac Computed Tomography

Peter Fries
Contrast Enhanced Cardiac MRI after the Application of Gd-BOPTA for the Evaluation of Regional Myocardial Hypokinesia

Kier Huehnergarth
Heart Rate and Coronary Artery Motion Artifacts with Prospectively-Gated Computed Tomography

Jacobo Kirsch
Interobserver Variability in ECG-Gated Dual Source Computer Tomography of the Heart for Left Atrial Volumes and Ejection Fraction

Elsie T. Nguyen
Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Is It Benign Disease? Correlating MRI Findings with Clinical Outcome

Anderanik Tomasian
Comprehensive Evaluation of Adult Tetralogy of Fallot with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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NASCI Gold Medalist, Dr. Murray Baron

Murray Baron, M.D., one of the founding members of the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging and 8th President of the society, was given the NASCI Gold Medal Award, NASCI’s highest honor. Dr. Murray Baron joined the faculty at Emory University in September of 1981 as Associate Chairman of the Department of Radiology. Previously he was head of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City; Professor of Radiology at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and, for the previous five years, Chairman of Radiology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, NY. He has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in refereed medical journals, as well as multiple chapters and textbooks.

2008 NASCI Keynote Speaker, Dr. Raymond Gibbons

Raymond Gibbons, M.D., Past President of the American Heart Association gave the 2008 NASCI Keynote Address. His lecture, Integrative Cardiac Imaging, was an excellent overview of the clinical and political ramifications of sequential and simultaneous imaging. One highlight, somber, yet realistic, was a presentation on the economic state of healthcare, the rate of increase in costs of cardiac imaging and procedures, and the state of Medicaid and Medicare as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP).

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