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Figure 5

From: Comprehensive Analysis of Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease using Multiscale X-Ray Phase Contrast Tomography

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Qualitative analysis of microstructural components of cardiac tissue. (a) Longitudinal and (b) cross section cuts of a representative coronary artery in the left ventricular (LV) wall of the SHR heart. The white arrows point at the collagen forming the adventitia layer around the vessel wall in the hypertensive rat. Black arrows indicate the presence of blood cells. (c) 3D rendering of a section of the visualised artery. (d) 3D rendering of a selected bundle of myocytes in the LV of the LAD heart. Colours were changed when branching was observed. (e) Fibre tracking in the HR LV transmural volume of the WKY heart. Image was colour coded by helical angle values as in Fig. 3.

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