Dr. Carl Jaffe from Yale Medical School

Accelerated understanding of vascular physiology has garnered two recent Nobel awards and that new knowledge permeates current guidelines for prevention and treatment of heart disease, hypertension, and stroke. Vascular imaging and image-guided therapies make unique contributions to that knowledge, but there is a confusing multiplicity of imaging techniques choices (CT, contrast angiography, ultrasound, MRI). By a series of examples, this talk will attempt to offer perspectives on the strengths and weaknesses of the various vascular imaging techniques, and suggest those which seem to have the greatest potential for offering future advances.