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From: 1016 Increased sensitivity for detection of intra-cardiac thrombus using phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) late enhancement techniques for combined myocardial scar and thrombus imaging

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Simulated T1 Recovery curves for two different tissues with T1 values similar to contrast-enhanced blood and thrombus. The region between the zero crossing points of the two tissues illustrates rapidly reducing and inverting contrast in the range of T1 values commonly used in MDE imaging – this is eliminated with the use of a Phase Sensitive IR sequence which preserves true T1 contrast.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

ISSN: 1532-429X

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