%A Xiangzhi  Zhou
%A Veronica Rundell
%A Ying Liu
%A Richard Tang
%A Shivraman Giri
%A Saurabh Shah
%A Sotirios A. Tsaftaris
%A Sven Zuehlsdorff
%A Orlando Simonetti
%A Debiao Li
%A Rohan Dharmakumar
%L eprints837
%T On the mechanism of myocardial edema contrast in T2-STIR images
%D 2010
%O from 13th Annual Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Scientific Sessions.
Phoenix, AZ, USA. 21-24 January 2010
%V 12
%I Society for cardiovascular magnetic resonance
%J Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance
%N Suppl 
%P O19
%R 10.1186/1532-429X-12-S1-O19
%X Acute myocardial infarcts (AMI) are typically discriminated with T2-STIR imaging [1], albeit with limited specificity [2]. Guided by the association that T2-STIR images identify AMI territories on the basis of edema-related T2 changes, even some of the recently proposed improvements [2,3] have relied on preferential sensitization of magnetization to T2-weighting. However, whether T2-STIR imaging itself may also be sensitive to other sources of contrast have not been fully investigated.