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Leeds CMR

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Address

Leeds
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS13EX
United Kingdom

Categories

Clinical CMR Centers, CMR Clinical Training Centers, CMR Research Centers, CMR Research Fellowships, CMR Technologist Training Centers, and Paediatric/Congenital Heart Disease CMR Centers

Description

Leeds has been active in academic and clinical CMR for over 25 years. Our service is based around three dedicated cardiac MRI scanners based in Leeds Teaching Hospitals and a small animal MRI scanner at the University of Leeds. We offer a tertiary clinical CMR service for Leeds and the region of West Yorkshire with currently ca. 3,000 adult and 1,000 paediatric CMR scans including stress imaging, scanning of patients with implanted devices and all other common applications. Via the University of Leeds, we have a large research group active across a wide range of research areas including technical development such as 4D flow, MR Spectroscopy and DTI and clinical applications in paediatric heart disease, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, valve disease and many more. We welcome clinical training and research fellows and typically have at least two international fellows on site along with our local and national trainees and fellows.

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Organization

University of Leeds & Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Website URL

Website URL

Clinical Director Details

Clinical Director Details

Name: Sven Plein
Email: s.plein@leeds.ac.uk

Administrator Details

Administrator Details

Clinical CMR Services

Clinical CMR Centers

Faculty Specialties:
  • Adult Cardiologist
  • Pediatric Cardiologist
  • Physicists
  • Scientists
Clinical Scanner Magnet Strength:
  • 1.5T
  • 3.0T
Type of Facility:
  • Public hospital
Number of CMR performed per year:
  • 2000 or more
Condition CMR offered for:
  • Chest pain / Stress CMR
  • Heart failure
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocarditis/COVID19
  • Pericardial disease
  • Valve disease
  • Vascular disease including aorta
  • Cardiac masses
  • Congenital heart disease (children)
  • Congenital heart disease (adult)
  • Cardio-oncology
  • Cardiac Transplant
  • Cardiac Amyloid
  • Cardiac Sarcoidosis
  • Pericardial disease
  • Interventional MR
Do you scan patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (e. g. pacemaker): Yes
Do you hold accreditation for your CMR service:
  • EACVI
  • Other
Music during Scan Available: Yes
Video during Scan Available: No

Clinical CMR Training

CMR Clinical Training Centers

Fellowship Applicant Pre-Requisite:
  • Cardiology Fellowship
  • Radiology Residency
  • Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship
  • Internal Medicine Residency
Type of training:
  • Adult CMR training
Level of Training offered:
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Duration of Training:
  • 6 months
  • 1 year
  • More than 1 year
Type of funding:
  • Funded positions
  • Self-funded positions
Structured training program: Yes
Number of Level 3 trainers: 8
Number of Trainees per Year: 4
Do you support the SCMR Training Fellowship: Yes
CMR Training Visa Requirements (other): UK visa required
How to apply/contact information:

Contact K.H.Richards@leeds.ac.uk for further information.

CMR Research Program

CMR Research Centers

Brief description of research programme:

We have a very broad research programme spanning congenital and acquired heart disease, cardio-metabolism and cardio-rheumatology, ischaemic heart disease and valve disease. We have a translational multi-disciplinary research group that includes physicists, scientists and clinical academics. We develop and validate methods such as DTI, MR Spectroscopy and quantitative perfusion.
See also:
https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-institute-cardiovascular-metabolic-medicine/doc/licamm-research/page/2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Leeds+magnetic+heart&sort=date

Do you have dedicated CMR scanner(s) for research: Yes
Clinical Research Scanner Magnet Strength:
  • 1.5T
  • 3.0T
Clinical Research Scanner Magnet Vendor:
  • Philips
  • Siemens
Small Animal Scanner Magnet Strength:
  • 7T
Small Animal Scanner Manufacturer:
  • Bruker
Type of Research:
  • Clinical CMR research (Adult)
  • Clinical CMR research (Pediatric/CHD)
  • Physics research
  • Small animal research
Research Methods:
  • Myocardial perfusion
  • Parametric mapping
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging
  • Multi-nuclear imaging
  • Flow imaging
  • Rapid Imaging

CMR Research Fellowships

CMR Research Fellowships

Research Applicant Pre-requisites:
  • Doctoral Degree
Degree Programs Available:
  • PhD
Duration of Programme:
  • More than 2 years
Type of Funding:
  • Funded positions
  • Self-funded positions
Number of senior researchers in team: 6
Number of fellows per Year: 4
Visa Requirements (other): UK Visa
How to apply/contact information:

Contact s.plein@leeds.ac.uk

Technologist CMR Training

CMR Technologist Training Centers

How to Apply / Contact Information:

Please contact davidshelley@nhs.net for CMR training opportunities for technologists.

Last Updated: May 10, 2024

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