Abstract #1248

Evaluation of Aortic Distensibility in Wild Type & ApoE-Knock-Out Mice at 9.4 T.

Peter Fries¹, Florian Custodis², Andreas Mller¹, Roland Seidel¹, Alexander Massmann¹, Arno Bcker¹, Gnther Schneider¹

¹Clinic of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Saarland, Germany; ²Department of Cardiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Saarland, Germany

The aim of this study was to compare the aortic distensibility (AD) in wild-type (C57/BL6, n=6)) and cholesterol fed ApoE-knock-out mice (ApoE-/-, n=6), a model of atherosclerosis, by means of cine MRI at 9.4 T.