Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death, and translational research is needed to
understand better mechanisms whereby the left ventricle responds to injury. Mouse models …

Diffusion MRI provides unique information on the structure, organization, and integrity of the
myocardium without the need for exogenous contrast agents. Diffusion MRI in the heart …

The aim of this study was to implement a quantitative in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging
(DTI) technique that was robust, reproducible, and feasible to perform in patients with …

The lack of a robust pipeline of medical therapeutic agents for the treatment of heart disease
may be partially attributed to the lack of in vitro models that recapitulate the essential …

Histological studies have shown that the myocardium consists of an array of crossing helical
fiber tracts. Changes in myocardial fiber architecture occur in ischemic heart disease and …

Motion of the heart has complicated in vivo applications of cardiac diffusion MRI and
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), especially in small animals such as rats where ultra-high …

Purpose To compare signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) efficiency and diffusion tensor metrics of
cardiac diffusion tensor map** using acceleration‐compensated spin‐echo (SE) and …

This study deals with the viscoelastic constitutive modeling and the respective computational
analysis of the human passive myocardium. We start by recapitulating the locally orthotropic …

Purpose In this work we present a dual-phase diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique that
incorporates a correction scheme for the cardiac material strain, based on 3D myocardial …

Pathophysiological responses after acute myocardial infarction include edema, hemorrhage,
and microvascular obstruction along with cellular damage. The in vivo evolution of these …