LGE MRI of atria is a new approach to perform qualitative and quantitative analysis of fibrotic structures in atrial wall. The advance of the method is noninvasiveness and automated algorithms of fibrosis/scar detection allow higher speed analysis and satisfactory reproducibility of results.

Nowadays this method can provide information about structural remodeling of atria in each particular patient and make the individual decision regarding techniques of invasive treatment.

Nevertheless, the methods of both atrial walls image acquisition and automatic fibrosis/scar definition are  still  controversial and need further development and standardizing.