Variability of Mouse Left Ventricular Function Assessment by 11.7 Tesla MRI

Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 362-371

  Vanhoutte, Laetitia ^a,b   Gallez, Bernard ^b   Feron, Olivier ^b   Balligand, Jean Luc ^b   Esfahani, Hrag ^b   d’Hoore, William ^b   Moniotte, Stéphane ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy; Mice; Reproducibility; Systolic function; Ultra high field MRI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLAND-ALTMAN ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART STROKE VOLUME; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LV SYSTOLIC FUNCTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84938744834     PISSN: 19375387     EISSN: 19375395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12265-015-9638-0     Document Type: Article

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