Abstract
ECG-gated cardiac MRI in the mouse is hindered by many technical difficulties in ECG signal recording inside static and variable high magnetic scanner fields. The present study proposes an alternative robust method of acquiring auto-gated cine images in mouse heart. In our approach, a motion synchronization signal is extracted from the echo peak MR signal of a non-triggered radial acquisition. This signal is then used for both cardiac and respiratory retrospective gating before cine image reconstruction. Highly asymmetric echoes were acquired to achieve the radial k-space sampling, in order to avoid radial acquisition related artifacts and to increase auto-gating robustness. In vivo experiments demonstrated the feasibility and robustness of self-gated cine-MRI in the mouse heart at 7T
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