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Figure 3 | Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Figure 3

From: Accelerated cardiovascular magnetic resonance of the mouse heart using self-gated parallel imaging strategies does not compromise accuracy of structural and functional measures

Figure 3

Representative bright-blood long-axis viewes (left (LV) and right ventricle (RV)) of a healthy (top row) and infarcted (bottom row) animal for different acceleration factors R. Inserts corresponding to the dashed white box in the top row show the magnified left ventricular outflow tract with pulmonary artery (PA), aorta (AO), aortic root (AR) and aortic valve (AV). The contrast in the inserts was equally modified in order to better visualize the AV, which can be clearly identified even for an acceleration factor of R = 3.0. The long-axis views in the bottom row clearly illustrate the enlargement of the left ventricle due to LV remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI): the open arrow shows LV wall thickening whereas the white arrows indicate LV wall thinning. LV remodeling is accurately detected even for R = 3.0.

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