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Familiarizes students with techniques used to detect and quantify the presence of clinical cardiovascular disease. Tours clinical facilities including diagnostic imaging laboratories. Observes radiographic (CT and MRI) imaging of atherosclerosis and review gross and histological specimens of atherosclerosis in the pathology laboratory. Observes various cardiac imaging techniques performed including 1) cardiac echocardiography 2) coronary angiography 3) coronary calcium evaluation and coronary CT angiography using multi-detector CT 4) cardiac MRI 5) DEXA and anthropometric measures of body composition 6) virtual observation of peripheral vascular imaging using ultrasound.