Fig. 3

Pre- and post-ferumoxytol coronal CMR images (3 T) belonging to a 94-year old male with critical aortic stenosis who had vascular mapping prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Pre-ferumoxytol HASTE images (a-c, upper panel) illustrate poor blood signal suppression. FE-HASTE images (a-c, lower panel) at approximately the same region demonstrate uniform blood signal suppression in all vascular regions and intra-cardiac chambers within the imaged field of view. A multi-slice comparison of pre-ferumoxytol HASTE and FE-HASTE images is available as Additional file 1: Video S1. Thin scallops of the mitral valve (b, lower panel) are well depicted against the uniformly dark left atrium. Atherosclerotic plaques along the vessel wall of the transverse aortic arch (a, lower panel, white arrow) are present. Ao aorta; LA left atrium; RA right atrium