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Fig. 4F —28-year-old male athlete with athlete's heart. Steady-state free precession images show maximal left ventricular wall thickness was measured as 16 mm. Note biventricular dilatation (E). This male athlete's end-diastolic volume (EDV) was calculated as 325 mL (120 mL/m²). Diastolic wall thickness (DWT) and left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) ratio (DWT/LVEDV) of 0.13 falls below the cutoff of 0.15 suggested by Petersen et al. [12]. This quantitative evaluation makes diagnosis of athlete's heart more likely than other pathologic causes of thickened left ventricles.