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Figure 4 Effects of RT3DE Image Quality on Endocardial Visualization
These examples of short-axis cut planes extracted from RT3DE datasets demonstrate how spatial resolution may affect the perception of endocardial boundaries. In 1 patient (left), endocardial trabeculae can be well visualized and clearly differentiated from the myocardium and thus appropriately included in the LV cavity. In contrast, in the second patient (right), the spatial resolution of the RT3DE image is not sufficient to provide this kind of detail and is likely to result in erroneous exclusion of the trabeculae from the LV cavity. Abbreviations as in Figure 1.
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