Fig 6.

Evolution of the "paramagnetic susceptibility contrast" of CVB3 induced lesions as a function of time post infection as revealed by additional T2 weighted images (same imaging conditions as in Fig 5), (A) control animal, (B) SWR/J mouse 6d pi, (C) SWR/J mouse 9 d p.i., (D) ABY/SnJ mouse 14 d p.i., (E) ABY/SnJ mouse 18 d p.i., (F) ABY/SnJ mouse 8 weeks p.i.. Qualitatively, the paramagnetic contrast becomes clearly visible during acute myocarditis (B, C), increases at the subacute myocarditis (D, E) and remains very strong at all chronic stages of myocarditis (F).