Table 1.

Mean ± standard deviation of the slice scar-to-blood and scar-to-myocardium and myocardium-to-blood relative contrast in the black-blood (BB) late gadolinium enhancement (BB-LGE), gray-blood LGE (GB-LGE), and conventional LGE sequences in the human dataset

	Scar-to-Blood relative contrast	Scar-to-Myocardium relative contrast	Blood-to-Myocardium relative contrast
GB-LGEa	1.11 ± 0.51	6.12 ± 4.17	1.69 ± 1.45
BB-LGEa	3.61 ± 1.83	5.13 ± 3.17	0.73 ± 1.28
Conventional LGEa	0.56 ± 0.36	5.96 ± 3.57	3.88 ± 3.53
Friedman Test (p-value)	< 0.001	0.028	< 0.001
BB-LGE vs. LGEb	< 0.001	0.59	< 0.001
GB-LGE vs. LGEb	< 0.001	0.19	0.005
GB-LGE vs. BB-LGEb	< 0.001	0.023	< 0.001

^aData represent the mean ± standard deviation of the relative contrast

^bData represent the p-value of the pairwise Wilcoxon signed-rank test