Our collaborators in the UW Department of Animal Sciences have a unique population of swine with familial hypercholesterolemia. As such, they develop early atherosclerosis. The goal of our project is to develop MRI-based biomarkers of atherosclerosis with the hope that we can detect disease burden in these swine before conventional methods of detection. 3D angiography will be very beneficial to the study, as it will allow us to confirm the presence of plaques and therefore assess whether or not our MRI-derived biomarkers can detect the atherosclerotic lesions seen with angiography.
FH Swine Pilot Study
This project was funded by:
The term of this project was: October 2011 to April 2011
The number of subjects scanned during this project was: 6