Fig. 1

Schematic representation of the study design (see text details). Note: the images in the figure highlight the three techniques in a patient with a prior myocardial infarction in the territory of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The transmural late gadolinium enhancement in the mid-distal anterior, mid-distal anteroseptal and distal septum, suggesting lack of viability in these areas, is represented by different colors for the different techniques. FT, feature tracking; GCS, global circumferential strain; GLS, global longitudinal strain; LGE, late gadolinium enhancement; STE, speckle tracking echocardiography; SENC, strain encoding