MR Assessment of Acute Pathologic Process after Myocardial Infarction in a Permanent Ligation Mouse Model: Role of Magnetic Nanoparticle-Contrasted MRI

Figure 5

Correlation between infarct lesion size based on LGE or MEMRI and inflammatory lesion size based on MNP-MRI. Pearson’s correlation coefficients () and values are described in the figure. Significant positive correlations between the infarct and inflammatory lesion size were observed by both area-based (a, c) and sector-based approaches (b, d). The solid line denotes the linear regression fit, and the dotted lines represent the 95% confidence limits. Each data point represents the individual enhanced size for each slice (4 slices per mouse).

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