Lund Cardiac MR Group

Description The Cardiac MR Group at the Department of Clinical Physiology, Lund University, performs research, teaching and clinical diagnostics of cardiovascular disease. The group is located at the Center for Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund. The group consists of physicians, engineers, technicians and a physiotherapist, a critical multidisciplinary composition essential for research utilizing cardiac MRI. The group currently has nine research lines: Ischemic heart disease and heart failure (Håkan Arheden), Congenital heart disease (Marcus Carlsson), Segmentation and modeling (Einar Heiberg), Perfusion assessment (Henrik Engblom), Pulmonary arterial hypertension (Ellen Ostenfeld), Large animal model of ischemia/reperfusion (Henrik Engblom), Fetal CMR (Erik Hedström), New MRI techniques (Anthony Aletras) and Cardiac pumping physiology and exercise CMR (Håkan Arheden, Marcus Carlsson and Katarina Steding Ehrenborg). For more information, please see the CMR homepage.