Interrogation of living myocardium in multiple static deformation states with diffusion tensor and diffusion spectrum imaging

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 213-225

  Lohezic, Maelene ^a   Teh, Irvin ^a   Bollensdorff, Christian ^b,c   Peyronnet, Rémi ^b   Hales, Patrick W ^d   Grau, Vicente ^e   Kohl, Peter ^b,e   Schneider, Jürgen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c QATAR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; Diffusion spectrum imaging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Isolated heart; Langendorff perfusion; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908620412     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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