In vivo T2* weighted MRI visualizes cardiac lesions in murine models of acute and chronic viral myocarditis

• Xavier Helluy,

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Physics V, Institute of Physics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Martina Sauter,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute for Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Yu-Xiang Ye,

  Affiliations Department of Experimental Physics V, Institute of Physics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

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• Gunthard Lykowsky,

  Affiliation Research Center Magnetic-Resonance-Bavaria (MRB), Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Jakob Kreutner,

  Affiliation Research Center Magnetic-Resonance-Bavaria (MRB), Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Ali Yilmaz,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Roland Jahns,

  Affiliation Comprehensive Heart Failure Centre (CHFC) and Interdisziplinary Bank of Biomaterials and Data (ibdw), University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Valerie Boivin,

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Reinhard Kandolf,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute for Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Peter M. Jakob,

  Affiliation Research Center Magnetic-Resonance-Bavaria (MRB), Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Karl-Heinz Hiller,

  Affiliations Research Center Magnetic-Resonance-Bavaria (MRB), Wuerzburg, Germany, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Magnetic Resonance and X-Ray Imaging Department, Würzburg, Germany

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• Karin Klingel

  * E-mail: Karin.Klingel@med.uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute for Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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