Heart transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients suffering from end-stage cardiac diseases. Early detection of acute rejection is central to saving heart transplants and lasting the patients' lives. Since rejection in early stage occurs locally, traditional methods such as electrocardiogram and biopsy fail to localize regional myocardial rejection in early stage. In contrast, MRI holds the promise to unveil the volumetric functional landscape in the heart. Among many MRI protocols, tagged MRI can assist cardiac motion tracking, and contrast-enhanced MRI can help localize immune...
Heart transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients suffering from end-stage cardiac diseases. Early detection of acute rejection is central...