Assessment of Cardiac Function and Myocardial Morphology Using Small Animal Look-locker Inversion Recovery (SALLI) MRI in RatsSarah Jeuthe 1, Darach O H-Ici 1, Ulrich Kemnitz 1, Thore Dietrich 2, Bernhard Schnackenburg 3, Felix Berger 1, Titus Kuehne 1, Daniel Messroghli 1,2
1Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Institute Berlin, 2Internal Medicine - Cardiology, German Heart Institute Berlin, 3Philips Health Care
Contrast enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging allows comprehensive in vivo assessment of the heart in small animal models of cardiovascular disease. Here we detail the procedures to perform CMR imaging, reconstruction and analysis using Small Animal Lock-Locker Inversion Recovery (SALLI) in rats.
