Feasibility of real-time magnetic resonance imaging-guided endomyocardial biopsies: An in-vitro study
Dirk Lossnitzer, Sebastian A Seitz, Birgit Krautz, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Florian André, Grigorios Korosoglou, Hugo A Katus, Henning Steen
Dirk Lossnitzer, Sebastian A Seitz, Birgit Krautz, Florian André, Grigorios Korosoglou, Hugo A Katus, Henning Steen, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Bernhard Schnackenburg, Philips Medical Systems, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
Author contributions: Lossnitzer D, Seitz SA, Krautz B and André F performed the research; Lossnitzer D, Seitz SA and Steen H designed the research and wrote the paper; Schnackenburg B, Korosoglou G and Katus HA contributed to the new analytic tools and reviewing the paper.
Supported by The German Research Foundation (KA493/6_1).
Institutional review board statement: The study was not reviewed by the University of Heidelberg Institutional Review Board since there were no patients enrolled and only phantoms and explanted pig hearts which were bought by a regional butcher were used.
Institutional animal care and use committee: All procedures involving animals were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe Case Number 35-9185.81/G-79/12.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There were no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Correspondence to: Dirk Lossnitzer, MD, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. dirk.lossnitzer@medma.uni-heidelberg.de
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Received: January 16, 2015
Peer-review started: January 16, 2015
First decision: March 20, 2015
Revised: June 2, 2015
Accepted: June 18, 2015
Article in press: June 19, 2015
Published online: July 26, 2015
