Fig. 12

Imaging example of thrombus appearance using conventional bright-blood (upper row) and dark-blood (middle row) PSIR LGE in multiple cardiac views in a patient with prior MI. The lower row illustrates the corresponding magnitude images of the middle row (where the inversion time was set for blood pool nulling). Note that for this dark-blood LGE method, only the PSIR dark-blood images are used for clinical decision making. The cyan arrows indicate the areas of MI, while the orange arrowheads indicate the intracardiac thrombus. The dark-blood images were acquired using the blood-nulled PSIR LGE method and were adapted from Holtackers et al. [23] with author permission