Contrast-enhanced MRI of right ventricular abnormalities in Cx43 mutant mouse embryos

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-374

  Wadghiri, Youssef Zaim ^a   Schneider, Amanda E ^a   Gray, Emily N ^a   Aristizabal, Orlando ^a   Berrios, Cesar ^a   Turnbull, Daniel H ^a   Gutstein, David E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Development; Embryo; Ex vivo; Micro MRI; Mouse; Phenotype; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

MAMMALIAN CARDIAC RIGHT EVENTRICLE; PHENOTYPE; RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT (RVOT);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EOSIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GELATIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBRYO; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMBRYO; HEART VENTRICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249745120     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1113     Document Type: Article

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