Figure 11

Black-blood imaging. a) Double-inversion preparation (the red line represents the myocardial longitudinal magnetisation (Mz) in the image slice, the dashed blue line represents the inverted blood Mz including that that has flown into the image-slice at the time of image acquisition, and the TI represents the null point of blood). b) Triple-inversion preparation or as it is often called STIR preparation (the red line and the dashed blue line represent the myocardial and the flowing blood Mz as in the previous figure, the dotted green line represents the fat Mz in the image slice). Please note that in both a and b diagrams, the effects of the host sequence are not considered for the Mz curves. c) Example of a short-axis STIR TSE image.