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Abstract #2042

Investigating the Need and Feasibility of Cardiac Triggering for Diffusion Imaging Data in Neonatal Subjects

Lajos R. Kozak1, Gbor Rudas1, Zoltn Vidnynszky1,2, Zoltn Nagy3

1MR Research Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; 2Neurobionics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Pzmny Pter Catholic University - Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; 3Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom


The feasibility of cardiac triggered diffusion data acquisition in a pediatric population was investigated. Data was collected with and without cardiac triggering either along the z gradient direction and then subjected to bootstrap statistics (3 subjects) or in 15 non-collinear directions and fitted to a tensor model (3 subjects). We found that cardiac triggering decreases the variability in the data without a significant increase in acquisition time in the investigated pediatric population.