Cardiac micro-computed tomography imaging of the aging coronary vasculature

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 518-524

  Sangaralingham, S Jeson ^a,b   Ritman, Erik L ^c   McKie, Paul M ^a,b   Ichiki, Tomoko ^a,b   Lerman, Amir ^a,b   Scott, Christopher G ^a   Martin, Fernando L ^a,b   Harders, Gerald E ^a,b   Bellavia, Diego ^a,b   Burnett, John C ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Diseases   (United States)

^c Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Computed tomography; Coronary vasculature; Fibrosis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84867150335     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.973057     Document Type: Article

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