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September 17, 2025

Enhanced cardiac motion capture during respiration via RF receiver cardiac focusing with respiratory motion compensation

Key Points

The techniques improved cardiac motion representation and suppressed respiratory motion during imaging.
Evaluation metrics showed prioritized cardiac motion with reduced flickering artifacts, indicating a significant improvement.
The methods employed involved retrospective RF focusing and motion compensation for effective imaging in pediatric patients.
This approach may enable better imaging techniques for pediatric patients with congenital heart disease.

Abstract

Motivation: Cardiac MRI is hindered by respiratory motion. Goal(s): To improve the representation of cardiac motion over respiratory motion and to reduce artifacts for cardiac- and respiratory-resolved imaging. Approach: We added retrospective cardiac phased array RF focusing using region-optimized virtual coils (ROVir) alongside rigid motion compensation (MoCo) for low-rank tensor (LRT) reconstruction of ROCK-MUSIC data in pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients. Evaluation metrics targeted cardiac motion prioritization, cardiac energy preservation, respiratory motion suppression, and flickering artifact reduction. Results: The proposed techniques compensated respiratory motion over the heart, prioritized cardiac motion, diminished respiratory motion, and removed artifacts, while also accelerating reconstruction time. Impact: The combination of MoCo and ROVir prioritizes modeling of cardiac motion, suppresses respiratory motion, and reduces artifacts. The improved respiratory handling from these techniques may provide an avenue for free-breathing scanning in pediatric patients with CHD.

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Hu et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4597b31b076d99fa5ccc8 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.58530/2025/0327

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