Philips Health Care 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Assessment of Cardiac Function and Myocardial Morphology Using Small Animal Look-locker Inversion Recovery (SALLI) MRI in Rats Sarah Jeuthe1, Darach O H-Ici1, Ulrich Kemnitz1, Thore Dietrich2, Bernhard Schnackenburg3, Felix Berger1, Titus Kuehne1, Daniel Messroghli1,2 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.
