Abstract #3493

A Novel Cardiac Phantom to Study Murine & Human Cardiac Motion & Function using MRI

Christakis Constantinides¹, Dimitris Nearchou¹, Christoforos Constantinou¹, Panayiotis Ktorides¹, Robert Gravett², Vasilios Tzagarakis³

¹Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; ²Shelley Medical Imaging Technologies, London, Ontario, Canada; ³Alpha Evresis Diagnostic Center, Nicosia, Cyprus

A novel cardiac MRI phantom is presented. Such phantom is scalable to both the human and mouse hearts and can be used in low and high field MRI systems. It constitutes the technological platform for detailed ex-vivo electro-mechanical studies of the cardiovascular system at the tissue and organ levels in mice and humans.