Myocardial Vasculature: A major contributor to cardiac MR diffusion
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Fig. 4 Logarithmic normalized signal attenuation with changes in perfusate flow. Free Wall-1 (left panel) is parallel to the diffusion encoded direction. On the other hand, Free Wall-2 (middle panel) and Papillary Muscle (right panel) are oriented orthogonal to the diffusion encoding direction. Fig. 1 Experimental setup for heavy DWI of isolated heart in the11T magnet, with the aorta cannulated Myocardial Vasculature: A major contributor to cardiac MR diffusion
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