Table 2.

LV Analysis: Comparison of Subjective Imaging Scores, Diagnostic Value, and Presence of LGE between Nonisotropic and Accelerated Isotropic Acquisitions

Note.—Fourteen patients underwent LV evaluation. Nonisotropic LV LGE images were obtained with two-dimensional breath-hold imaging in three patients and with phase-sensitive inversion recovery in four patients; these cases were excluded from scoring and further analysis. Isotropic images reconstructed with LOST were scored higher than nonisotropic images in all views. The differences in short-axis and two-chamber views were statistically significant (Wilcoxon unpaired two-sample test). There was no disagreement about the presence of LGE between the two acquisitions.

^*Data are numbers of patients. Numbers in parentheses are percentages. NA = not applicable.

^†Image score was reported on a scale of 1 to 4. Numbers in parentheses are 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively.