LGE was only deemed to be present if it was also present in the identical slice soon after swapping phase encoding, therefore excluding artifacts. With respect to the AHA tips, the myocardium was divided into 17 segments

To appraise purposeful parameters, electrocardiogram-gated cine pictures were then acquired using a segmented steady-point out free precession sequence (time to echo/time of repetition 1.6/three.two ms, temporal resolution 35 ms, in-airplane…