Figure 1.

Sequence diagrams. STEAM acquisition spanning over two consecutive heartbeats (a) and SE acquisition with second order motion compensated diffusion encoding gradients including VERSE (variable rate selective excitation) echo pulse (b). Fat suppression is achieved by a binomial excitation pulse. The excitation slab is tilted with respect to the 90° or 180° pulses to allow for reduced field of view imaging. Before the first 90° excitation, rest slabs are applied orthogonal to the field of view in phase encoding direction to suppress residually excited signal. For both sequences, the trigger delay was set to mid systole and images were encoded by identical single‐shot EPI readouts.