Figure 1
CMR imaging modalities used for comparison – representative images in short-axis slices from: ( Left panel ) Normal volunteer ( Middle panel ) Patient with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Note high T2 signal and T1 values in an apical slice. (Right panel) Patient with regional edema in the anterior wall territory. Note high T2 signal and T1 values in the anterior, anterolateral wall and anterior septum. Rows: (A) Dark-blood T2-weighted images (reference ROIs in skeletal muscle and remote myocardium not shown). (B) Bright-blood T2-weighted images. (C) Colour ShMOLLI T1-maps. Green denotes normal myocardium. Red denotes increased T1 values (D) R2 maps of ShMOLLI inversion recovery fit used to verify the quality of T1-maps. (E) LGE imaging.