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Fig. 3

From: Magnetic resonance imaging of the papillary muscles of the left ventricle: normal anatomy, variants, and abnormalities

Fig. 3

Papillary muscle variations. a Illustration of six papillary muscle variations. Type I is a single muscle, type II/A is two heads with a common origin, type II/B is two heads separated at the basal portion, type III/A is three heads with a common origin, type III/B is three heads with two sharing a common origin, and type III/C is three heads with no common origin. b Multiple short-axis SSFP MRI images demonstrating each of the papillary muscle variations

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