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From: Non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle fibrosis in mice using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound shear wave elastography

Figure 3

ECV correlates with collagen fraction in skeletal muscles. Extracellular volume (ECV) was estimated from muscle T1-maps acquired in vivo and plasma-T1 measured in samples collected before and 1-h after Gd-CA injection. ECV was higher in fibrotic muscles after injury (a) and correlated with collagen fraction (b). Lines connect injured and control muscles for each animal in (a). (b) Scatter plot with fitted linear regression and 95% confidence interval in grey.

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