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C ardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an excellent imaging modality to characterize the heart in coronary artery disease (CAD), particularly using the powerful late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique to delineate… Click to show full abstract
C ardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an excellent imaging modality to characterize the heart in coronary artery disease (CAD), particularly using the powerful late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique to delineate scar tissue. LGE relies on an area of presumed-normal myocardium for nulling, to highlight areas of abnormality on the basis of relative signal intensities; however, in many cardiac diseases, very little of the myocardium remains normal. T1 mapping is an emerging CMR technology that unmasks underlying abnormalities in otherwise normal-looking myocardium in a directly quantitative fashion, beyond what LGE may inform.
Journal Title: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Year Published: 2018
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