Therapeutic Potential of Tacrolimus on Acute Myocardial Infarction in Minipigs: Analysis with Serial Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Changes at Histological and Protein Levels

Table 1

Cardiac magnetic resonance parameters of CINE and late gadolinium enhancement for assessing minipigs with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) without and with intracoronary tacrolimus treatment.

	CINE	LGE
Inversion time (msec)	NA	200–280
Flip angle	55°	15°
Echo time (msec)	Minfull	Minimum
Bandwidth (kHz)	125	31.25
RR-interval	NA	2
Trigger delay (msec)	NA	255
Thickness/gap (mm)	8/2	8/2
Field of view (mm)	280 × 280	280 × 280
Frequency matrix	224	160
Phase matrix	192	160
Number of excitation	1	1
Phase field of view	0.8	1
Views per second	16	8
Number of cardiac phase	20	1

NA: not applicable.