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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2016 Sep 16;78(2):484–493. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26378

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Black-blood contrast as a function of the MSDE preparation echo time. Exemplary baseline images (upper panel) show residual blood-signal for too short echo-times (yellow arrow), while long echo-times cause myocardial signal void (orange arrows). Accordingly, the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) between myocardium and blood-pool is compromised for long and very short echo-times. The coefficient of variation (COV) in the myocardium increases with longer echo-times, caused by progressive signal void.