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Abstract #0155

A Novel Technique for Cardiac MRI of the Fetal Heart: MR Compatible Doppler Ultrasound (CTG) for CardiacTriggering

Ulrike Wedegaertner1, Michael Frisch1, Inga Kopp1, Joachim Graessner2, Kurt Hecher1, Gerhard Adam1, Jin Yamamura1

1University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 2Siemens


The novel MR compatible CTG allowed an excellent trigger of the fetal heart rate. An evaluation of anatomical structures and functional information could be obtained from the cMRI. A CTG triggered fetal cardiac MRI might be of great impact in the evaluation of fetuses with complex congenital heart defects.