Diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: a clinical perspective

Z Khalique, PF Ferreira, AD Scott… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Imaging the heart is central to cardiac phenotyping, but in clinical practice, this has been
restricted to macroscopic interrogation. Diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic resonance …

Cardiac diffusion: technique and practical applications

S Nielles‐Vallespin, A Scott, P Ferreira… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The 3D microarchitecture of the cardiac muscle underlies the mechanical and electrical
properties of the heart. Cardiomyocytes are arranged helically through the depth of the wall …

Myocardial architecture, mechanics, and fibrosis in congenital heart disease

S Ghonim, I Voges, PD Gatehouse… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common category of birth defect, affecting 1% of
the population and requiring cardiovascular surgery in the first months of life in many …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: emerging techniques and applications

A Chowdhary, P Garg, A Das, MS Nazir, S Plein - Heart, 2021 - heart.bmj.com
This review gives examples of emerging cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)
techniques and applications that have the potential to transition from research to clinical …

[HTML][HTML] An in-vivo comparison of stimulated-echo and motion compensated spin-echo sequences for 3 T diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic resonance at …

AD Scott, S Nielles-Vallespin, PF Ferreira… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Stimulated-echo (STEAM) and, more recently, motion-compensated spin-echo
(M2-SE) techniques have been used for in-vivo diffusion tensor cardiovascular magnetic …

Quantifying precision in cardiac diffusion tensor imaging with second‐order motion‐compensated convex optimized diffusion encoding

E Aliotta, K Moulin, P Magrath… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To quantify the precision of in vivo cardiac DTI (cDTI) acquired with a spin echo,
first‐and second‐order motion‐compensated (M1M2), convex optimized diffusion encoding …

Cardiac magnetic resonance quantification of structure-function relationships in heart failure

KL Nguyen, P Hu, JP Finn - Heart failure clinics, 2021 - heartfailure.theclinics.com
Heart failure (HF) affects approximately 6.5 million adults in the United States and is
expected to increase in prevalence because of an aging population and cardiometabolic …

Postmortem cardiac magnetic resonance in sudden cardiac death

B Guidi, GD Aquaro, M Gesi, M Emdin, M Di Paolo - Heart Failure Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Postmortem imaging is increasingly used in forensic practice as good complementary tool to
conventional autopsy investigations. Over the last decade, postmortem cardiac magnetic …

Microarchitecture of the hearts in term and former‐preterm lambs using diffusion tensor imaging

B Le, P Ferreira, S Merchant, G Zheng… - The Anatomical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an MRI technique that can be used to map cardiomyocyte
tracts and estimate local cardiomyocyte and sheetlet orientation within the heart. DTI …

Technical Aspects of in vivo Small Animal CMR Imaging

H Li, A Abaei, P Metze, S Just, Q Lu, V Rasche - Frontiers in physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has become an accurate and versatile
imaging modality to visualize the cardiovascular system in normal or abnormal conditions. In …