Ex vivo diffusion tensor MRI of human hearts: Relative effects of specimen decomposition

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1703-1709

  Eggen, Michael D ^a,b,c   Swingen, Cory M ^b   Iaizzo, Paul A ^b,d  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor MRI; fiber orientation; human hearts; postmortem specimens

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBERS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA; TENSORS;

DEGREE OF DECOMPOSITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR MRI; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN HEART; LOCAL FIBER ORIENTATION; POST MORTEM INTERVALS; POSTMORTEM SPECIMENS; PRINCIPAL EIGENVALUES;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EX VIVO STUDY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84861228999     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23194     Document Type: Article

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