Fig. 5

68-year-old male with shortness of breath and suspected peri-valvular leak following mitral valve repair, who underwent CMR which revealed clinically unsuspected central pulmonary emboli. Top row: source images from scout scan acquired using ECG-gated single-shot Cartesian bSSFP (left), single-shot radial QISS (middle), and CEMRA (right), Bottom row: multi-planar reconstruction from CTA performed immediately following the MR exam (left), 64-mm maximum intensity projection from radial QISS (middle), 64-mm maximum intensity projection from CEMRA (right). The pulmonary emboli are well shown by radial QISS and CEMRA. Note that the thrombi are much more conspicuous with radial QISS than with bSSFP