Advanced Cardiac Imaging Program
Meet Our Team
Robert Quaife MD
Professor - Clinical Practice
CU Foundation-DOM Card Image Chair
What we offer
- Advanced Cardiac Imaging consists of the use of specialized cross-sectional imaging modalities such as cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, and cardiovascular nuclear imaging to diagnose and treat heart muscle and vascular diseases.
- Faculty all have significant and additional specialty training in advanced clinical cardiac imaging.
- This training includes
- evaluation of congenital heart disease
- coronary ischemia and infarction imaging
- genetic and infiltrative cardiac muscle disease
- valvular heart disease
- aortic congenital and developmental disease and sources of cardiac arrhythmias
- The faculty understand and are competent in defining appropriate modalities and necessary acquisition protocols for evaluation of cardiac physiology, pathology and pathophysiology.
- The data obtained through these studies are critical for planning and tactical completion of many tasks in cardiovascular disease and in structural heart disease interventions. The University of Colorado offers a full complement of cardiac imaging modalities.
- These include a high volume echocardiography lab, structural intervention guidance, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, and nuclear. With a recent $5 Million gift, we have established the Cardiac Imaging Programatic Fund which will provide valuable resources for leaders to advance cardiac imaging techniques and improved educational opportunities for students.