Fig. 1

Images were scored on a 4-point scale for image quality and diagnostic utility. (a) SSFP imaging in short-axis in a 26 year-old patient with tetralogy of Fallot and complete atrioventricular septal defect status post repair: No artifacts and good endocardial definition, scored 4 for both quality and diagnostic utility. (b) SSFP imaging in the four-chamber plane in a 32 year-old patient with dextrocardia and congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, who previously failed CMR on a 1.5 Tesla scanner: Flow-related artifact (arrows), which did not affect interpretation of ventricular size or function, scored 3 for quality, but 4 for diagnostic utility. (c) Volume-rendered reconstruction of gadolinium-enhanced MRA in a 57 year-old patient with pulmonary hypertension and reported history of atrial septal defect repair in a foreign country. The left upper pulmonary vein (white arrowhead) drains into the left innominate vein; the right upper and middle veins drain into a baffle within the superior vena cava (black arrowhead) to the left atrium. Scored 4 for both quality and diagnostic utility. (d) SSFP imaging in short axis in a 16 year-old patient with unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect status post Fontan: Significant coil artifact, obscuring portions of the heart, scored 2 for both quality and diagnostic utility (for right ventricular size and function)