Figure 12From: CMR of microvascular obstruction and hemorrhage in myocardial infarctionThe potential for T2* imaging to improve the differentiation between MO with and without hemorrhage is shown. Panel A shows uniform hyperintensity on T2-SPIR (spectrally selective inversion recovery) imaging despite a region of persistent MO on LGE (Panel C). In Panel B, a small region of decreased T2* is shown, which is much smaller than the MO region, suggesting that much of MO region is in fact non-hemorrhagic and shows normal T2* values. (Reprinted with permission from: O’Regan DP et al. Heart 2010; 96:1885-1891[78]). See also the imaging vignette from Cannan C et al. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 2010; 3(6):665–668[71].Back to article page