Fig. 5

Examples of 4 patients that underwent bright blood late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) first and dark blood (DB) LGE second (left column) and 4 additional patients that underwent the sequences in the opposite order (right column). The bright blood LGE, for either acquisition order, exhibits a range of contrast between the subendocardial scar and adjacent blood pool, from good (top rows) to poor (bottom rows) contrast, whereas the DB LGE had excellent contrast in all cases. In the top left corner of each image is the time after administration of gadolinium (minutes:seconds)