Shuning Huang1, Guangping Dai1,
David E. Sosnovik1,2
1Martinos Center for Biomedical
Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; 2Center
for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown,
MA, United States
We
present in the study, to the best of our knowledge, the first diffusion
weighted MR images of the mouse heart to be acquired in vivo. Schemes to
overcome motion artifact in the rapidly beating mouse heart are presented,
and the ability of the technique to detect changes in cell death in the
myocardium after an ischemic insult is demonstrated.
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