Correction to: J Cardiovasc Magn Reson (2017) 19: 75. DOI: 10.1186/s12968-017-0389-8

In the original publication this article was incorrectly published as a “Review article”, this has been corrected to a “Position paper”. Furthermore, in the original publication of this article [1] the “Competing interests” section was incorrect.

The original publication stated the following competing interests:

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

The corrected competing interest statement is as followed:

Competing interests

Reza Nezafat has patents pending for methods for scar imaging in patients with arrhythmia, slice interleaved T1 and T2 mapping, and motion correction for parametric mapping, and receives patent royalties from Phillips Healthcare and Samsung Electronics.

Michael Salerno, Peter Kellman, Richard Thompson and Ruud B. van Heeswijk receive research support (source codes) from Siemens Healthineers.

Reza Nezafat receives research support (source codes) from Philips Healthcare.

Erik B. Schelbert has received MRI contrast material donated for research purposes from Bracco Diagnostics and has served on advisory boards for Bayer and Merck.

Martin Ugander states having Institutional research and development agreement regarding cardiovascular magnetic resonance with Siemens.

Matthias G. Friedrich is board member and consultant of Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc.

Vanessa M. Ferreira receives support by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Oxford.

Authors Daniel Messroghli, Lars Grosse-Wortmann, Taigang He, Julia Mascherbauer, James C. Moon and Andrew J. Taylor report no competing interests.