Quantification of Mouse Heart Left Ventricular Function, Myocardial Strain, and Hemodynamic Forces by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ImagingMariah R. R. Daal 1, Gustav J. Strijkers 1,2, Claudia Calcagno 2, Ruslan R. Garipov 3, Rob C. I. Wüst 1,4, David Hautemann 5, Bram F. Coolen 1
1Department of Biomedical Engineering & Physics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 2BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 3MR Solutions Ltd., 4Laboratory for Myology, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 5Medis medical imaging systems B.V.
This study describes a comprehensive cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) protocol to quantify the left ventricular functional parameters of the mouse heart. The protocol describes the acquisition, post-processing, and analysis of the CMR images as well as assessment of different cardiac functional parameters.
