Improved method for quantification of regional cardiac function in mice using phase-contrast MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 541-551

  Dall'Armellina, Erica ^a   Jung, Bernd A ^b   Lygate, Craig A ^a   Neubauer, Stefan ^a   Markl, Michael ^b   Schneider, Jürgen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cine MRI; ischemia reperfusion; motion encoding; mouse hearts; phase contrast MRI; transmural wall motion

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMALS; MAPPING; SIGNAL ENCODING; TIME AND MOTION STUDY; TISSUE;

CINE-MRI; ISCHEMIA REPERFUSION; MOUSE HEART; PHASE CONTRAST MRI; WALL MOTION;

HEART;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMETERS; PHASE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGIONAL CARDIAC FUNCTION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTOLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 84856228228     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23022     Document Type: Article

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