Stress CMR cannot be performed on all patients due to the relative or absolute contraindications listed below, this is a problem, especially in patients who either have a pacemaker or severe renal failure. The acquisition of the images is very sensitive to the rhythm of the heart and scans of patients with atrial fibrillation, bigeminy or trigeminy will sometimes be of low quality and may not be interpretable. Due to the high contrast between the blood pool and the myocardium it is common to get what looks like a thin subendocardial area of ischaemia called the Gibbs artifact, this however, is less common with newer technology allowing higher resolution<unk> . In patients who have had a previous myocardial infarction or previous coronary artery bypass surgery, the images may be very difficult to interpret and in such cases, the analysis of the scans is performed with the complement of another<unk>  modality (such as coronary angiography).
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging perfusion
Coronary CT calcium scan
Coronary CT angiography
Pressure–volume loop analysis in cardiology
ST2 cardiac biomarker
Cardiac electrophysiology
Impedance cardiography
Pulmonary angiography