Abstract #0393

Statistical Atlas of the Human Left Ventricular Fibre Architecture Using In-Vivo DT-MRI

Nicolas Toussaint¹, Christian Stoeck², Sebastian Kozerke², Maxime Sermesant³, Tobias Schaeffter¹

¹Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; ²Biomedical Engineering, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; ³asclepios research project, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Myocardial fibre architecture plays a major role in the heart morphology and mechanics. Recent advances in DT-MRI now provide a window to investigate this architecture in-vivo.