Tobias
Frauenrath1, Meike Becker2,3, Fabian Hezel1,
Gabriele A. Krombach2, Ute Kremer2, Jeanette
Schulz-Menger1,3, Thoralf Niendorf1,3
1Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility,
Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; 2Department
of Radiology, University Hospital, RWTH, 52074 Aachen, Germany; 3Experimental
and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charit Campus Buch,
Humboldt-University, 13125 Berlin, Germany
As
high-field cardiac MRI (CMR) becomes more widespread the propensity of ECG to
distortions and mistriggering increases and with it the motivation for a
cardiac triggering alternative. Hence, this study explores the suitability of
acoustic cardiac triggering (ACT) for left ventricular (