Feasibility of functional cardiac MR imaging in mice using a clinical 3 Tesla whole body scanner

AC Bunck, MA Engelen, B Schnackenburg… - Investigative …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To test the feasibility of cardiac MR imaging in mice using a clinical 3 Tesla
whole body MR system for structural and functional analysis. Standard protocols for bright …

Optimization of cardiac cine in the rat on a clinical 1.5-T MR system

K Montet-Abou, JL Daire, MK Ivancevic… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2006 - Springer
Object: the overall goal was to study cardiovascular function in small animals using a clinical
1.5-T MR scanner optimizing a fast gradient-echo cine sequence to obtain high spatial and …

Cardiac MRI in small animals

MC Ku, T Huelnhagen, T Niendorf… - Preclinical Mri: Methods …, 2018 - Springer
Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of mice is a valuable tool for the precise in vivo
diagnosis and prognosis of heart defects. This detailed protocol describes the method of …

Development of real-time magnetic resonance imaging of mouse hearts at 9.4 Tesla—simulations and first application

T Wech, N Seiberlich, A Schindele… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel method for real-time magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of cardiac
function in mice at 9.4 T is proposed. The technique combines a highly undersampled radial …

Geometrical models for cardiac MRI in rodents: comparison of quantification of left ventricular volumes and function by various geometrical models with a full-volume …

T Van De Weijer, PA Van Ewijk… - American Journal …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
MRI has been proven to be an accurate method for noninvasive assessment of cardiac
function. One of the current limitations of cardiac MRI is that it is time consuming. Therefore …

Cardiac imaging using clinical 1.5 t MRI scanners in a murine ischemia/reperfusion model

JGJ Voelkl, BJ Haubner, C Kremser… - BioMed Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
To perform cardiac imaging in mice without having to invest in expensive dedicated
equipment, we adapted a clinical 1.5 Tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner …

How to perform an accurate assessment of cardiac function in mice using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging

JE Schneider, F Wiesmann, CA Lygate… - Journal of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
High-resolution magnetic resonance cine imaging (cine-MRI) is a method that allows for a
non-invasive assessment of left ventricular function and mass. To perform this quantitation …

Assessment of global cardiac function

JE Schneider - In vivo NMR Imaging: Methods and Protocols, 2011 - Springer
High-resolution magnetic resonance cine imaging (cine-MRI) allows for a non-invasive
assessment of ventricular function and mass in normal mice and in genetically and …

[HTML][HTML] Development and characterization of rodent cardiac phantoms: comparison with in vivo cardiac imaging

S Fortune, MA Jansen, T Anderson, GA Gray… - Magnetic resonance …, 2012 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of rodent models of human cardiovascular disease has led to a
need to translate noninvasive imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging …

Comparison between prospective and retrospective triggering for mouse cardiac MRI

E Heijman, W de Graaf, P Niessen… - NMR in Biomedicine …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has evolved into one of the major non‐
invasive tools to study the healthy and diseased mouse heart. This study presents a …