Table 2.

Characteristics of patients and healthy volunteers

Characteristic	All subjects (n = 65)
Age (years)
Mean ± standard deviation	42.4 ± 15.5
Minimum, Maximum	18.8, 70.5
Left ventricular ejection fraction (%) on 1.5 T
Mean ± standard deviation	55.3 ± 8.7
Indication for scan - n(%)
Healthy subjects	21(32.3)
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy	27 (41.5)
Viability	7 (10.8)
Valve/shunt	6(9.2)
Other	4 (6.2)
Referred for contrast enhanced exam	16 (24.6)

Characteristics of patient age, ejection fraction and indication for clinically-referred CMR for patients and healthy volunteers