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Cardiac MRI in small animals

Authors

  • M.C. Ku
  • T. Huelnhagen
  • T. Niendorf
  • A. Pohlmann

Journal

  • Methods in Molecular Biology

Citation

  • Methods Mol Biol 1718: 269-284

Abstract

  • Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of mice is a valuable tool for the precise in vivo diagnosis and prognosis of heart defects. This detailed protocol describes the method of cardiac MR imaging in mice step by step. A series of MR images captures the contractile function of the mouse heart and post-processing of the image data yields morphometric parameters (myocardial mass, myocardial wall thickness, ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic volume) as well as functional parameters (stroke volume and ejection fraction). This protocol may also serve as a starting point for MR imaging of rats, by using larger image dimensions (field-of-view) and MR hardware suitable for larger animals.


DOI

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7531-0_16