Diffusion MR tractography of the heart

Histological studies have shown that the myocardium consists of an array of crossing helical fiber tracts. Changes in myocardial fiber architecture occur in ischemic heart disease and heart failure, and can be imaged non-destructively with diffusion-encoded MR. Several diffusion-encoding schemes hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wedeen, Van J., Sosnovik, David, Reese, Timothy G., Dai, Guangping, Wang, Ruopeng
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52532