In Vivo MRI Tracking of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Labeled with Ultrasmall Paramagnetic Iron Oxide Particles after Intramyocardial Transplantation in Patients with Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

Figure 5

MRI images of patients 3–5. T2 images from patient 1 are in the main text. Images from patient 2 are not shown due to cardiac tamponade. The yellow arrows point to hypointense areas in the images suspected to point out injected USPIO-labeled MSCs.

(a) Images patient 3

(b) Images patient 4

(c) Images patient 5