Fig. 1

Example images over the time course of the experiment: baseline (15 days before infarction), 6 days, 5 weeks and 9 weeks after myocardial infarction. The systolic timeframe shows hypo-contraction in the inferior lateral wall coinciding with areas of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and changes in native T1, extra cellular volume fraction (ECV), T2, mean diffusivity (MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA)