Rat heart anatomy acquired by the 3D-PACT. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Rat heart anatomy acquired by the 3D-PACT.

Caption

a, Front view of the heart within a cardiac cycle. The heart is identified by a magenta circle at 4/11 T. BA, brachiocephalic artery; ITV, internal thoracic vessels; IV, intercostal vessels. b, Cross-sectional images of the heart on the sagittal plane. Each image is a maximum amplitude projection (MAP) of a slice marked by the green dashed lines in a (Time 0). c, Cross-sectional images of the heart on the coronal plane. Each image is an MAP of a slice marked by the yellow dashed lines in b (Time 0). LA, left atrium; LV, left ventricle; PuA, pulmonary artery; RA, right atrium; RV, right ventricle; SVC, superior vena cava. d, The same data (at Time 0) shown with color-encoded depths. Shallower structures were peeled away in the lower images to show the posterior anatomy.

Credit

by Li Lin, Xin Tong, Susana Cavallero, Yide Zhang, Shuai Na, Rui Cao, Tzung K. Hsiai, and Lihong V. Wang

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