Ex vivo 3D diffusion tensor imaging and quantification of cardiac laminar structure

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 850-859

  Helm, Patrick A ^a,d   Tseng, Hsiang Jer ^a   Younes, Laurent ^b   McVeigh, Elliot R ^c   Winslow, Raimond L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c National Institutes of Health   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Cardiac; Diffusion tensor MRI; Myocardial microstructure; Myofiber laminar sheets

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; TESTING;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; CARDIAC; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOMINANT ORIENTATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MYOFIBER LAMINAR SHEETS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOG; GEOMETRY; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 26844581525     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20622     Document Type: Article

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