Cardiovascular MRI at ultra-high field strength is a growing field of research and as such there is a need for reliable, accurate, and user-independent triggering and gating. We propose a novel approach that uses directional couplers from the SAR monitoring system and an 8-channel pTx coil to measure the reflection coefficients simultaneously to determine cardiac motion with an independent component analysis and Gaussian shaped RF-monitoring pulses. This approach has the potential to improve cardiac imaging at ultra-high field CMR by providing robust triggering in periods of breath-hold and free-breathing, additional gating information and an optimised workflow with no additional set-up.
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