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Abstract #0393

Statistical Atlas of the Human Left Ventricular Fibre Architecture Using In-Vivo DT-MRI

MAGNA25Nicolas Toussaint1, Christian Stoeck2, Sebastian Kozerke2, Maxime Sermesant3, Tobias Schaeffter1

1Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; 2Biomedical Engineering, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 3asclepios research project, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Myocardial fibre architecture plays a major role in the heart morphology and mechanics. Recent advances in DT-MRI now provide a window to investigate this architecture in-vivo.

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