The sensitivity of MRI sequences to motion impairs their reliability and diagnostic utility for examining the chest and abdomen. Established motion-compensation techniques are not accurate enough, come at the cost of patient comfort, and are limited by the MR imaging parameters. Here, we demonstrate a novel approach that detects respiratory signal from the amplitude modulation of a transmitted RF reference signal, termed ‘pilot-tone’ (PT). We show how the use of this simple RF transmitter, with its small dimensions, high sampling rate, and low interference with the MR acquisition, can produce motion corrected-images under free-breathing conditions.
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