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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Probl Cardiol. 2010 Apr;35(4):176–220. doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2009.12.002

Figure 8.

Figure 8

This illustration demonstrates the area of infarction, defined by both late gadolinium enhancement (white) and microvascular obstruction (black) surrounded by the area at risk (gray) which represents the potential area of myocardial salvage. Reprinted from Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, volume 2, Mather AN, Greenwood JP and Plein S. Characterization of acute myocardial infarction by magnetic resonance imaging, pages 1141-1143, 2009, with permission from Elsevier.