The use of MR imaging and spectroscopy for studying cardiovascular disease processes in
small animals has increased tremendously over the past decade. This is the result of the …

Although current cardiovascular MR (CMR) techniques for the detection of myocardial
fibrosis have shown promise, they nevertheless depend on gadolinium‐based contrast …

Fibrosis is a common feature of heart disease and is associated with adverse cardiac
remodeling and poor clinical outcome. Because of the lack of routine noninvasive patient …

Abstract Systems and methods are provided for detecting collagen within tissue using
magnetic resonance imaging. In some embodiments, pulse sequences are employed to …

Background The homogeneous distribution of collagen in diffuse myocardial fibrosis renders
the disease unsuitable for imaging using late gadolinium enhancement (LGE)[1]. More …