“…CMR in animals is used for evaluation of cardiac morphology (Contreras et al, 2008;Baumwart et al, 2009;, cardiac function (Hockings et al, 2003;MacDonald et al, 2005;Baumwart et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2013;Meyer et al, 2013;Sieslack et al, 2013;Sieslack et al, 2014; as well as associated diseases of the heart Mai et al, 2010), the pericardium (Boddy et al, 2011), and the adjacent vasculature (Mai et al, 2010;Lee et al, 2017). Comparison of stroke volume based on a flow-sensitive phase-contrast sequence in different anatomical locations provides important clinical information such as cardiac output, shunt fraction, collateral flow around obstructions and flow differ ences in the pulmonary arteries (Gatehouse et al, 2005).…”