Abstract

From: 15th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions Orlando, FL, USA 2-5 February 2012 Author details1-Harvard Medical School-MGH-Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USAEMPTY2-Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAEMPTY3-CMR Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKEMPTY4-Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, São Paulo, BrazilEMPTY5-Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USAEMPTY Supplemental Information: The reduction in diffusivity and anisotropy is confirmed by a proportional decrease in all three eigenvalues. [figure omitted; refer to PDF] Conclusions Here, for the first time, we perform DTI tractography of the human heart in vivo at two phases of the cardiac cycle.

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Title
Diffusion MRI tractography of the human heart In Vivo at end-diastole and end-systole
Author
Mekkaoui, Choukri; Nielles-Vallespin, Sonia; Gatehouse, Peter D; Jackowski, Marcel P; Firmin, David N; Sosnovik, David E
First page
O49
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
10976647
e-ISSN
1532429X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
919058554
Copyright
© 2012 Mekkaoui et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.