Myocardial Microvasculature

Project – Super resolution imaging of the myocardial microvasculature

Cardiac microvasculature plays an important role in cardiac myocardium perfusion and microcirculation. Limited by the spatial resolution of the current imaging techniques, the anatomical assessment of the microcirculation is challenging. This project aims to use the super-resolution ultrasound imaging technique to visualise the microvasculature in the cardiac myocardium.

A: Super resolution myocardial microvasculature map for a Langendorff ex-vivo pig heart, short axis view. B: Flow direction map for the zoomed-in region inside the rectangular box of Figure A. Angle map is showed right to the figure B. C: Flow velocity map for the same zoomed-in region. Velocity map is showed right to the figure C. LV: left ventricle; RV: right ventricle.