Recent Advances in Small-Animal Cardiovascular Imaging

Recent advances in small-animal cardiovascular imaging.

Because of the development of gene knockout and transgenic technologies, small animals, such as mice and rats, have become the most widely used animals for cardiovascular imaging studies. Imaging can provide a method to serially evaluate the effect of a particular genetic mutation or pharmacologic therapy (1). In addition, imaging can be used as a noninvasive screening tool for particular cardi...

Recent advances in cardiovascular diseases.

Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

THAT a first description of an important clinical condition should be so complete and at once so concise that, for nearly two hundred years, no one has added anything material to it, or discarded anything from it as irrelevant, is indeed a great rarity. Yet this is true of Heberden's description of angina pectoris, as it is contained in the paper he read before the Royal College of Physicians i...

Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging

The microcirculation is relatively inaccessible to direct visualization and investigation. Recent methods have been developed which use advanced retinal photographic imaging techniques and computer-assisted image analysis to characterize, measure and quantify subtle variations and abnormalities in the retinal vasculature. These quantitative and qualitative assessments demonstrate a close associ...

Recent advances in biological imaging.

Recent innovations in microscopy and digital image processing have greatly enhanced the power of biological imaging. Basic principles of several new methods in light and electron microscopy will be discussed, and examples presented of their application to cell and molecular biology.