In Vivo Fluorine Imaging Using 1.5 Tesla MRI for Depiction of Experimental Myocarditis in a Rodent Animal Model

Figure 2

A MIP of the overlaid ¹⁹F signal over the anatomical scan in 1.5 Tesla MRI: (a) The fluorine in the liver is predominant on the image, and small signals in other organs are merely visible. Through cluster analysis, unspecific signals can be identified and subsequently excluded from the visualization by recomputing the colormap, leading to (b). The visual identification of weaker ¹⁹F enhancements (the marker M stands for the signal in the myocardium in this example) is thus facilitated.

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