Fig. 4.

Native T1 mapping in aortic stenosis. A Color maps of T1 values of mid-ventricular short-axis slices (top row) and corresponding LGE images (bottom row) of normal controls and patients with moderate and severe AS. The left column shows a normal volunteer (T1 = 944 ms), the middle column a patient with moderate AS and moderate left ventricular hypertrophy (T1 = 951 ms) and the right column shows a patient with severe AS with severe left ventricular hypertrophy (T1 = 1020 ms). B Whisker-plots of myocardial T1 values of normal controls and of patients with moderate AS, asymptomatic severe AS and symptomatic severe AS. The between-group comparisons with the corresponding p-values are also presented. AS aortic stenosis, LGE late gadolinium enhancement, ns non-significant.

Adapted with permission from Bull et al. [40]