Figure 1
Acquired CMR images. Three sets of CMR images are acquired for the diastolic heart failure patients: (a) a stack of parallel short-axis cine images covering the left ventricle from base to apex to measure the filling pattern and myocardial thickness. (b) Four-chamber (up) and short-axis (down) cine tagged images to measure myocardial strain. (c) Two velocity-encoded aortic cross sections, separated by distance Δx to measure the pulse wave velocity.