解剖
房室结
捆绑
窦房结
生物医学工程
对比度(视觉)
医学
材料科学
心脏传导系统
生物
计算机科学
心电图
放射科
内科学
人工智能
心率
复合材料
血压
心动过速
作者
Robert S. Stephenson,Mark R. Boyett,George Hart,Theodora Nikolaidou,Xue Cai,Antonio F. Corno,Nelson Alphonso,Nathan Jeffery,Jonathan C. Jarvis
出处
期刊:PLOS ONE
[Public Library of Science]
日期:2012-04-11
卷期号:7 (4): e35299-e35299
被引量:97
标识
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0035299
摘要
The general anatomy of the cardiac conduction system (CCS) has been known for 100 years, but its complex and irregular three-dimensional (3D) geometry is not so well understood. This is largely because the conducting tissue is not distinct from the surrounding tissue by dissection. The best descriptions of its anatomy come from studies based on serial sectioning of samples taken from the appropriate areas of the heart. Low X-ray attenuation has formerly ruled out micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) as a modality to resolve internal structures of soft tissue, but incorporation of iodine, which has a high molecular weight, into those tissues enhances the differential attenuation of X-rays and allows visualisation of fine detail in embryos and skeletal muscle. Here, with the use of a iodine based contrast agent (I2KI), we present contrast enhanced micro-CT images of cardiac tissue from rat and rabbit in which the three major subdivisions of the CCS can be differentiated from the surrounding contractile myocardium and visualised in 3D. Structures identified include the sinoatrial node (SAN) and the atrioventricular conduction axis: the penetrating bundle, His bundle, the bundle branches and the Purkinje network. Although the current findings are consistent with existing anatomical representations, the representations shown here offer superior resolution and are the first 3D representations of the CCS within a single intact mammalian heart.
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