Myocardial fibrosis: emerging target for cardiac molecular imaging and opportunity for image-guided therapy

FM Bengel, J Diekmann, A Hess… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
Myocardial fibrosis is a major contributor to the development and progression of heart
failure. Significant progress in the understanding of its pathobiology has led to the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in 19Fluorine magnetic resonance imaging with perfluorocarbon emulsions

AH Schmieder, SD Caruthers, J Keupp, SA Wickline… - Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The research roots of 19fluorine (19F) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) date back over 35
years. Over that time span, 1H imaging flourished and was adopted worldwide with an …

[HTML][HTML] Multiparametric MRI to quantify disease and treatment response in mice with myeloproliferative neoplasms

TH Robison, M Solipuram, K Heist, G Amouzandeh… - JCI insight, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Histopathology, the standard method to assess BM in hematologic malignancies such as
myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), suffers from notable limitations in both research and …

Optimized CEST cardiovascular magnetic resonance for assessment of metabolic activity in the heart

Z Zhou, C Nguyen, Y Chen, JL Shaw, Z Deng… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Background Previous studies have linked cardiac dysfunction to loss of metabolites in the
creatine kinase system. Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is a promising …

On‐resonance variable delay multipulse scheme for imaging of fast‐exchanging protons and semisolid macromolecules

J Xu, KWY Chan, X Xu, N Yadav, G Liu… - Magnetic resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop an on‐resonance variable delay multipulse (VDMP) scheme to image
magnetization transfer contrast (MTC) and the chemical exchange saturation transfer …

Multi-scale imaging of vascular pathologies in cardiovascular disease

A Tiwari, B Elgrably, G Saar, K Vandoorne - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular disease entails systemic changes in the vasculature. The endothelial cells
lining the blood vessels are crucial in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Healthy …

CEST, ASL, and magnetization transfer contrast: How similar pulse sequences detect different phenomena

L Knutsson, J Xu, A Ahlgren… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST), arterial spin labeling (ASL), and
magnetization transfer contrast (MTC) methods generate different contrasts for MRI …

Characterization of the ultrashort‐TE (UTE) MR collagen signal

AG Siu, A Ramadeen, X Hu, L Morikawa… - NMR in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although current cardiovascular MR (CMR) techniques for the detection of myocardial
fibrosis have shown promise, they nevertheless depend on gadolinium‐based contrast …

Non-invasive detection of adeno-associated viral gene transfer using a genetically encoded CEST-MRI reporter gene in the murine heart

S Meier, AA Gilad, JA Brandon, C Qian, E Gao… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Research into gene therapy for heart failure has gained renewed interest as a result of
improved safety and availability of adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV). While magnetic …

Multimodal assessment of orbital immune cell infiltration and tissue remodeling during development of graves disease by 1H19F MRI

U Flögel, A Schlüter, C Jacoby… - Magnetic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To evaluate key molecular and cellular features of Graves orbitopathy (GO) by
simultaneous monitoring of alterations in morphology, inflammatory patterns, and tissue …