1Imaging
Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, United
Kingdom; 2Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 3Asclepios Research Group, INRIA,
Sophia-Antipolis, France
The laminae arrangement within the left ventricle is believed to strongly determine the tissue shearing that allows the muscle contraction. In this work we demonstrate that in-vivo DTI is capable of detecting discrepancies between diastolic and systolic laminae organization that agrees with previously reported histological studies.