Research focus

• development of new protocols of heart imaging
• identifying novel imaging biomarkers for the prediction of early myocardial dysfunction

Main goals

• To test a novel CMR protocol to improve early detection of myocardial injury in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy patients.
• To prove that CMR can detect higher prevalence and earlier stages of cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis in comparison with commonly used methods.
• To find novel CMR and laboratory markers for the diagnosis of cardiotoxicity in oncological group of patients after cardiotoxic chemotherapy.

Technological equipment

• MR 1,5T Philips Ingenia
• MR 3,0T GE DISCOVERY MR 750
• Intellispace Discovery Portal
• Tomtec Arena
• SW Circle cvi42, v. 5.13