Models Versus Established Knowledge in Describing the Functional Morphology of the Ventricular Myocardium

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 273-288

  Lunkenheimer, Paul P ^a   Redmann, Klaus ^a   Niederer, Peter ^b   Schmid, Peter ^b   Smerup, Morten ^c   Stypmann, Jörg ^a   Däbritz, Sabine ^d   Rothaus, Kai ^a   Anderson, Robert H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE CELLS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 45849114400     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2008.02.012     Document Type: Review

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