Assessment of renal function; clearance, the renal microcirculation, renal blood flow, and metabolic balance

WH Beierwaltes, LM Harrison‐Bernard… - Comprehensive …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Historically, tools to assess renal function have been developed to investigate the
physiology of the kidney in an experimental setting, and certain of these techniques have …

Myocardial CT perfusion imaging in a large animal model: comparison of dynamic versus single-phase acquisitions

F Schwarz, R Hinkel, E Baloch, RP Marcus… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2013 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to compare dynamic versus single-phase high-pitch computed
tomography (CT) acquisitions for the assessment of myocardial perfusion in a porcine model …

Heterogeneity of the intrahepatic portal venous blood flow: impact on hepatocyte transplantation

F Timm, B Vollmar - Microvascular research, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The poor repopulation rate of the liver by transplanted hepatocytes
markedly hampers liver cell therapy, which might be due to a limited sequestration of cells …

A novel microfluidic approach for monodispersed chitosan microspheres with enhanced autofluorescence

H Zhao, JH Xu, PF Dong, GS Luo - Chemical engineering journal, 2013 - Elsevier
Fluorescent microspheres are widely used in the field of biomedicine. This article presents a
novel and facile microfluidic method to prepare monodispersed chitosan microspheres with …

Validation of an axially distributed model for quantification of myocardial blood flow using 13N-ammonia PET

AM Alessio, JB Bassingthwaighte, R Glenny… - Journal of nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Estimation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with cardiac PET is often performed
with conventional compartmental models. In this study, we developed and evaluated a …

Absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow with constrained estimation of the arterial input function

JU Fluckiger, BC Benefield, KR Harris… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To evaluate the performance of the constrained alternating minimization with
model (CAMM) method for estimating the input function from the myocardial tissue curves …

Vasculature reconstruction from 3D cryomicrotome images

A Goyal - 2013 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Background: Research in heart disease can be aided by modelling myocardial
hemodynamics with knowledge of coronary pressure and vascular resistance measured …

Etablierung eines transkardialen Zugangs zur endovaskulären Versorgung der thorakalen Aortenpathologien.

K Peymann - 2013 - ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
Einleitung: Aortenaneurysmen und Aortendissektionen sind kardiovaskuläre
Erkrankungen mit zunehmender Prävalenz, einer hohen Morbidität und Mortalität …