Impaired cardiac filling in response to increased passive myocardial stiffness contributes to
the pathophysiology of heart failure. By leveraging cardiac MRI data and ventricular …

Since heart contraction results from the electrically activated contraction of millions of
cardiomyocytes, a measure of cardiomyocyte shortening mechanistically underlies cardiac …

Abstract Porcine hearts (N= 14) underwent ex vivo diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 3T. DTI
analysis showed regional differences in helix angle (HA) range. The HA range in the …

Background Knowledge of the normal myocardial–myocyte orientation could theoretically
allow the definition of relevant quantitative biomarkers in clinical routine to diagnose heart …

Cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (cDTI) allows estimating the
aggregate cardiomyocyte architecture in healthy subjects and its remodeling as a result of …

In vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) data were acquired in swine subjects six to
ten weeks post-myocardial infarction (MI) to identify microstructural-based biomarkers of MI …

Nutrition that is based on mostly consuming plant origin food, also known as plant-based
diet, generates multiple forms of dietary patterns, which in common have lower …

Cardiac MRI and finite element based techniques can be used to obtain subject-specific
myocardial material properties. Verifying the accuracy and precision of these techniques …

Non-invasive imaging techniques to detect and characterize infarcted myocardium are
critical for myocardial infarction (MI) prognosis and post-MI risk assessment. Many existing …

MRI-driven computational constitutive modeling can be used to obtain subject-specific
myocardial passive stiffness. Verifying the accuracy and precision of this technique requires …