Dynamic MRI of the fetal myocardium
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Background Fetal cardiovascular MRI has been hampered by the lack of a reliable cardiac gating signal. A recently proposed solution to this problem is metric optimized gating (MOG) [1-3]. Here, we demonstrate the ability of MOG to acquire images of the fetal myocardium without conventional cardiac gating. Our work is motivated by the need for high-resolution dynamic imaging in the assessment of fetal congenital heart disease [4].
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