Diagnostic accuracy of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging with LGE was ninety seven percent and equivalent to that of invasive coronary angiography.
Intracoronary thrombus detection by CMR is by non contrast enhanced T1 weighted imaging, utilising the short T1 of methemoglobin in the acute thrombus.
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has the advantage that it is less operator dependent than echocardiography regarding the acquisition of images.
MR angiography of both femoral arteries showing severe disease on both sides with reformation of the vessels lower down as a good sized popliteal arteries.
Most intravascular magnetic resonance systems need an intravascular probe and an external MRI scanner, though newer stand alone probes are being developed.