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Does bright-blood T2-weighted MRI improve diagnostic accuracy for acute myocardial infarction compared to dark-blood T2-weighted MRI?
Does bright-blood T2-weighted MRI improve diagnostic accuracy for acute myocardial infarction compared to dark-blood T2-weighted MRI?
Bright-blood T2-weighted MRI provides superior diagnostic accuracy and better estimation of ischemic area at risk and myocardial salvage compared to dark-blood T2-weighted MRI.
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Supports bright-blood T2-weighted MRI for accurate area-at-risk assessment in acute MI; extends prior T2-sequence comparisons with randomized diagnostic data.
Bright-blood T2-weighted MRI has higher diagnostic accuracy than dark-blood T2-weighted MRI. Additionally, dark-blood T2-weighted MRI may underestimate area at risk and myocardial salvage.
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Payne et al. (2011) studied this question.
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