Wednesday, January 22, 2025

‘Google Earth for the human heart’ set to accelerate cardiovascular medicine

Rendering of the healthy heart, showing external vasculature and muscle fibers.Credit: Siemens Healthineers 2024; Data UCL led ESRF Beamtime 1290. University College London Two whole adult human hearts, one healthy and one diseased, have been imaged in unprecedented detail by researchers from UCL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), providing an invaluable resource for better understanding cardiovascular disease. The study, published in Radiology, is an atlas of the human heart that captures the anatomical structure of the whole organ down to 20 micrometers—half the width of a human hair. In certain areas imaging has been done to the cellular level. The Read More

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