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

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.