Fig. 1

Pulse sequence of the black-blood (BB) late gadolinium enhancement (BB-LGE), gray-blood LGE (GB-LGE) (a); and the signal evolution of the different tissues for conventional LGE (b), BB-LGE (c) and GB-LGE (d). All tissue types are assumed having the same (unity) initial signal intensity. Image acquisition time point is indicated by a black vertical line