[HSF] 1st attempt at VHU-Virtual Heart University

[Tea Acuff]

I am no expert in MR. I am someone looking for new insights with different tools. 
One could do a 3-D volume MRA looking for a lumenogram effect focused on the LVOT. That however largely subtracts the surrounding anatomy and the membrane may be rather subtle in the mass effect of the rest of the flow. It is an interesting idea. Notice to this point that the acceleration we see on one of those cines is in the volume of the LVOT and LA which are separated only by the thin line of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve.

I imagine the surgeon as someone who walks into house usually always the same way and into the same rooms. We always approach the gargage from a different door than we do the bedroom and never walk throughout the house. It gives us a peculiar perspective and intimate knowledge of special details. This is more than adequate for replacing doors or repairing windows. If we need to shift walls or do other structural work, it is exceeding hard to image the effect on the neighboring room, or where the pipes run. Tearing other houses apart is not the same as a blueprint of a particular house. CMR is like a blue print of the house. Everyone talks about the doors (valves). I would like to change the discussion to the walls of which the doors are just a part. I think CMR will help us do that.

I in no way presume I am the expert in seeing these structural details compared to this audience. I am however willing to ask all the stupid questions in a way that is different from what we think that we know from our present perspectives. In the final analysis we only truly know what we can understand in our own words and images, not some elses. That is a quality of a master surgeon.
tea


----- Original Message ----
From: prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 5:49:58 AM
Subject: Re: [HSF] 1st attempt at VHU-Virtual Heart University


Tea, I saw the images . Don't they make those "run around" 3D 
reconstructs with these like they do with aneurysms ? I would be 
interested in seeing them if they make them. My sister works in GE in 
the MR section (She is a top notch MR geek doing things on FFFSE or 
something like that but I try to con her into thinking I can understand 
the gobbledy gook she tells me she is doing) and she shows me sometimes 
some outstanding images but I do not know if they are released for the 
"general public (read you and me) " yet as many of these are "work in 
progress".
Prasanna
Tea Acuff wrote:
> I posted the videos  to a web page instead. Here is the link:
> http://www.geocities.com/tacuff@swbell.net/index.html
> try this and let me know if you are able to view this way.
> tea
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:10:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [HSF] 1st attempt at VHU-Virtual Heart University
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> Tea you will have to send the Pando request directly to us.
> Please send one to me. If you type forward , it keeps forwarding to the 
> relevant people (after the first one is uploaded) easily.
> Prasanna
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> Tea Acuff wrote:
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>> ** YOU'LL NEED PANDO TO OPEN THIS ATTACHMENT. **
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>> Now I'll attempt sending this -don't know if it will work but if anyone wants to get the article via Pando and if the HSF list allows, people can access it for viewing. Please let me know if you are able to view or not and will try sending via a different method.
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>> Tea
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