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A 50-year-old male with congenital heart disease who underwent pulmonary valve replacement with biological valve prosthesis. Metallic artefacts related to sternotomy (arrows) are associated with total signal dropout on volumetric interpolated breath-hold sequence (a), but they are not any longer visualized on the half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo sequence (b). Metallic artefacts may also appear as peripheral high signal intensity (arrowheads) (c).
