Figure 2From: 2123 Quantification of inflow effects in 3D cardiac imaging: implications for 3D whole-heart coronary artery and vein imagingBlood myocardium CNR obtained with GRE and SSP techniques. CNR decreases significantly with increasing slab thickness. Note that the GRE has a lower baseline contrast that SSFP, though at 10 cm slab thickness, SSFP has lost significantly more contrast. GRE loses contrast linearly up ~6.5 cm slab thicknesses, after which contrast reaches a minimum.Back to article page