Macroscopic Fluorescence Imaging: A Novel Technique to Monitor Retention and Distribution of Injected Microspheres in an Experimental Model of Ischemic Heart Failure

• Andreas Martens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Martens, Sebastian V. Rojas

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Sebastian V. Rojas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Martens, Sebastian V. Rojas

  * E-mail: rojas.sebastian@mh-hannover.de

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Hassina Baraki,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Christian Rathert,

  Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Natalie Schecker,

  Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Sara Rojas Hernandez,

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Kristin Schwanke,

  Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Robert Zweigerdt,

  Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Ulrich Martin,

  Affiliation Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Shunsuke Saito,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Axel Haverich,

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Ingo Kutschka

  Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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