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* SPring-8/JASRI, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Shikata, Okayama 700-8558, Japan; Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Matsushima, Kurashiki 701-0192, Japan; and ¶ National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan
Correspondence: Address reprint requests to N. Yagi, JASRI, SPring-8, Experimental Research Division, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan. Tel.: 81-791-58-0908; E-mail: yagi{at}spring8.or.jp.
We studied x-ray diffraction from the left ventricular wall of an excised, perfused whole heart of a rat using x rays from the third-generation synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8. With the beam at right angles to the long axis of the left ventricle, well-oriented, strong equatorial reflections were observed from the epicardium surface. The reflections became vertically split arcs when the beam passed through myocardium deeper in the wall, and rings were observed when the beam passed into the inner myocardium of the wall. These diffraction patterns were explained by employing a layered-spiral model of the arrangement of muscle fibers in the heart. In a quiescent heart with an expanded left ventricle, the muscle fibers at the epicardium surface were found to have a (1,0) lattice spacing smaller than in the rest of the wall. The intensity ratio of the (1,0) and (1,1) equatorial reflections decreased on contraction with a similar time course in all parts of the wall. The results show that it is possible to assign the origin of reflections in a diffraction diagram from a whole heart. This study offers a basis for interpretation of x-ray diffraction from a beating heart under physiologically and pathologically different conditions.
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