Fig. 7

Short-axis bright-blood and dark-blood phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) LGE image of a subject with non-ischaemic fibrosis. Image a: Conventional bright-blood PSIR LGE short-axis image demonstrating the presence of mid-myocardial enhancement in the basal to mid antero-lateral segment (blue arrow). The orange arrow indicates a pericardial cyst/loculated pericardial effusion in the context of thickened pericardium. In this case, a diagnosis of previous myo-pericarditis was made on the basis of CMR findings and clinical history. Image b: No evidence of mid-myocardial enhancement was found on the dark-blood PSIR LGE image. A non-perfect correspondence of the slice positioning, most likely due to patient motion between acquisitions, could have contributed to this discrepancy. In this case, conventional LGE and dark-blood LGE were performed at 10 min and 20 min post-injection, respectively. For specific scan details, see ‘Philips Achieva TX’ at Table 1