Assessment of myocardial fibrosis in cardiomyopathic hamsters with gadolinium-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 22-32

  Aso, Hiroko ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a   Ito, Tsunao ^a   Shiraishi, Taizo ^a   Matsumura, Kaname ^a   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Contrast media; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardial fibrosis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031985950     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199801000-00004     Document Type: Article

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