One of the main tasks of the human kidneys is to maintain the homeostasis of the body's fluid
and electrolyte balance by filtration of the plasma and excretion of the end products. Herein …

Background Myocardial T 1-mapping recently emerged as a promising quantitative method
for non-invasive tissue characterization in numerous cardiomyopathies. Commonly …

Preclinical noninvasive imaging can be an indispensable tool for studying animal models of
disease. In vivo imaging to assess anatomical, functional, and molecular features requires …

Background Perfusion imaging has become an important image based tool to derive the
physiological information in various applications, like tumor diagnostics and therapy …

Purpose To study the feasibility of black‐blood contrast in native T1 mapping for reduction of
partial voluming at the blood–myocardium interface. Methods A saturation pulse prepared …

Transgenic and gene knockout rodent models are primordial to study pathophysiological
processes in cardiovascular research. Over time, cardiac MRI has become a gold standard …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with a high prevalence of diastolic
dysfunction and congestive heart failure. A potential contributing factor is the accelerated …

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing worldwide. In Europe alone,
at least 8% of the population currently has some degree of CKD. CKD is associated with …

Objective A volume coil with squared slots-end ring was developed to attain improved
sensitivity for imaging of rat's brain at 7 T. Material and Methods The principles of the high …

Abstract We studied intraobserver (n= 24), interobserver (n= 24) and interexperiment (n= 12)
reproducibility of left ventricular (LV) mass and volume measurements in mice using an 11.7 …