Comparison of fast multi-slice and standard segmented techniques for detection of late gadolinium enhancement in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy – a prospective clinical cardiovascular magnetic resonance trial

Table 3 Contrast-to-noise ratios

	All groups	Chronic infarction	HCM	Inflammatory heart disease
FLASH-PSIR	65.9 ± 71.9	67.9 ± 58.5 *	80.4 ± 126.8	37.0 ± 21.3 *
SSFP-IR	40.1 ± 26.8†	43.2 ± 28.4 *†	38.5 ± 19.9 †	31.5 ± 22.2†
SSFP-PSIR	137.8 ± 103.7†	149.8 ± 114.9 *†	118.4 ± 66.9†	95.7 ± 49.2 *†
SSFP-PSIR nonbh	125.9 ± 72.5†	134.5 ± 72.5 *†	101.7 ± 65.8†	109.0 ± 73.4 †

*p < 0.05 towards the other disease entities for the individual LGE sequence. † p < 0.05 towards FLASH-PSIR gold standard for individual disease entity

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