CMR imaging was performed using a 1.5T scanner (Philips Achieva, Best, The Netherlands) with a 32-element cardiac phased-array receiver coil. Scar imaging was performed using a dark-blood LGE sequence with an optimized joint inversion preparation and T2 magnetization preparation to simultaneously suppress myocardial and blood signal and enhance blood-scar contrast46 (link),47 . Imaging was performed 15–25 minutes after injection of 0.15–0.2 mmol/kg gadobenate dimeglumine (MultiHance; Bracco Imaging, Milan, Italy). A respiratory navigator with an adaptive acquisition window48 (link) was used for prospective motion correction. Imaging was performed in short-axis with the following parameters: gradient echo imaging sequence; spatial resolution = 1.3 × 1.3 × 1.3 mm3; field-of-view = 320 × 335 × 90 mm3; TR/TE/flip angle = 2.6/1.3msec/55°; sensitivity encoding rate = 2; centric phase-encoding order.