Fig. 6

a-d Duration of the CMR scan. a and b illustrate the duration for a comprehensive STEMI CMR acquisition protocol providing data on edema-based AAR, intramyocardial hemorrhage, microvascular obstruction, MI size and ECV and on average takes around one hour to acquire. Based on the results from this study, T1-mapping may allow T2-mapping and LGE to be omitted thereby shortening the scanning time by 15–20 min. c and d illustrates the options of either doing T2-mapping and post-contrast T1-mapping or native T1 mapping and post-contrast T1 mapping depending on the research question