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Figure 1 | Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

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From: Histology of human myocardial laminar microstructure and consideration of its cyclic deformations with respect to interpretation of in vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging

Figure 1

Human myocardial histology. Five tangential slices of a mid lateral block were each sectioned perpendicular to the local myocytes to reveal laminar microstructure (above). Individual myocytes can be distinguished at high magnification of the mid wall cross-myocyte section (below right) and a wall tangent section (below left). Shear layers (cracks) appear to have gaped post mortem in this heart, which enhances their visibility.

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