Eleftheria Pervolaraki1,
Steven Reynolds2, Adriana Bucur2, Alejandro Frangi3,
Richard Anderson4, Martyn Paley2, Arun Holden1
1Faculty
of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, United
Kingdom; 2Academic Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield,
Yorkshire, United Kingdom; 3Mechanical Engineering, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; 4MRC Centre for
Reproductive Health, Universityy of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, East Lothian,
United Kingdom
High resolution 3D FLASH imaging of post mortem fetal human hearts around 20 week gestation was performed at 9.4T with 58 micron isotropic spatial resolution. Muscle and Purkinje fibers could be segmented in spiral formation.