Fig. 7

Small thrombus in the LV apex in a male patient with a moderately dilated cardiomyopathy. Vertical long-axis SSFP cine MRI (left), contrast-enhanced MRI early after contrast medium administration using a long inversion time (i.e. 550Â ms) (right). The thrombus is hardly visible on cine MRI (left) but is well depicted as a hypointense rounded nodular structure on the contrast-enhanced image (right)