MR photography of 3D-MR images

Background Late gadolinium enhancement MRI (LGE-MRI) has become the gold standard for assessing myocardial infarction size. In experimental infarct validation studies the left ventricle is often sliced into thin slices and subsequently stained with TTC as a gold standard for infarct quantification. There is no single imaging slice in a 3D-MR data stack that exactly represents the photographed TTC-stained slice or whole slice microscopy as the photograph is of a surface. Therefore, we developed a method for post-processing 3D-MR data to depict the exact same surface as seen on a traditionally photographed myocardial slice.