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We aimed to determine the reproducibility of synthetic Hct and ECV using different published models among groups of subjects. Healthy subjects and those with diagnosed cardiac amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) scanned using a 1.5T scanner with native and post-contrast T1 maps and same-day Hct were included. Among 148 subjects, there was excellent reproducibility (all ICCs ~0.98) between synthetic and measured ECV across the six formulas, despite only modest reproducibility of synthetic\/measured Hct (ICCs 0.52\u20130.66). The levels of accuracy predicting abnormal measured ECV were consistently excellent among the different synthetic ECV models. The difference in the CMR vendor used to generate models did not seem to affect the results of the comparisons. We conclude that synthetic ECV yielded excellent reproducibility compared with ECV calculated using measured hematocrit, possibly obviating the need for blood extraction in cardiac MRI settings without point-of-care Hct.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcdd13010034","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,7]],"date-time":"2026-01-07T09:34:12Z","timestamp":1767778452000},"page":"34","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Excellent Reproducibility of Synthetic Extracellular Volume Without Blood Extraction Across Different Cardiomyopathies Using Published Regression Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1561-8415","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jeong W.","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sylvia","family":"Biso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6847-8057","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonathan","family":"Weber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-5349-2456","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Karli","family":"Pipitone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shibu","family":"Philip","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1850-8665","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Omar K.","family":"Khalique","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2332","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jcmg.2019.06.031","article-title":"Myocardial T1 and ECV Measurement: Underlying Concepts and Technical Considerations","volume":"12","author":"Robinson","year":"2019","journal-title":"JACC Cardiovasc. 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