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An apparatus for applying a mechanical massage to rat hearts inside a wide‐bore NMR spectrometer
Author(s) -
Kushnir Tammar,
Schwalb Herzl,
Yaroslavsky Esther,
Borman Joseph B.,
Uretzky Gideon,
Navon Gil
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.1910150306
Subject(s) - spectrometer , nuclear magnetic resonance , massage , biomedical engineering , materials science , chemistry , medicine , physics , pathology , optics , alternative medicine
A device for applying mechanical massage to the isolated perfused rat heart inside a wide‐bore NMR spectrometer was developed. This device exerts a squeezing pressure on a fibrillating heart placed inside a NMR spectrometer without interfering with the NMR measurements. It appears that the apparatus is important for obtaining reliable results in the postischemic reperfusion period. © 1990 Academic Press, Inc.