Fig. 1
From: Dark-blood late gadolinium enhancement without additional magnetization preparation
Phase-sensitive inversion-recovery (PSIR) and magnitude IR late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) images with viable myocardium nulling and blood nulling. Routine viable myocardium nulling is shown in a & b, while the proposed left ventricular (LV) blood nulling is shown in c & d. The viable myocardium, LV blood, and scar tissue are indicated by a ■, ♦, and •, respectively. Note that the nulled viable myocardium appears black using magnitude IR (in b), whereas it appears dark gray using PSIR (in a). The corresponding gray scale bars for magnitude IR and PSIR are shown on the right of each image