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Almanac 2014: cardiovascular imaging

S. Nakatani 

Department of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 

The ‘Almanac’ Reviews provide an overview of articles on a specific topic published in Heart over the past 2 years, put in the context of advances in the field, including publications from several other journals. The focus of this Almanac article is Cardiovascular imaging – as a general cardiology journal, the imaging research in Heart tends to be clinically oriented and often will impact our clinical practice.
Key words: myocardium, coronary artery, imaging.