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Table 2 Synopsis of the image quality assessment

From: Acoustic cardiac triggering: a practical solution for synchronization and gating of cardiovascular magnetic resonance at 7 Tesla

 

End-diastolic Phase

End-systolic Phase

Subject

ACT

ECG

POX

ACT

ECG

POX

1

2,4

2,2

1,8

1,5

1,6

1,7

2

2,6

0,9

1,9

2,1

0,5

1,6

3

2,9

2,7

2,5

2,6

2,4

2,1

4

2,9

1,7

2,8

2,6

1,2

2,4

5

2,5

1,9

1,9

2,1

1,7

1,7

6

1,6

2,1

1,8

1,5

1,5

1,4

7

1,5

1,6

1,1

1,1

1,6

1,0

8

2,8

1,1

2,4

2,4

0,8

1,5

9

2,1

0,7

1,3

1,9

0,5

0,9

Mean

2,4

1,7

2,0

2,0

1,3

1,6

SD (+/-)

0,5

0,7

0,5

0,5

0,6

0,5

  1. Mean values of image quality scores for each subject and trigger approach. Overall image quality of end-diastolic and end-systolic images was rated using a scale ranging from 0 to 3 for each slice (0 - images with poor and non-diagnostic quality due to cardiac motion induced blurring, 1 - image quality impaired by cardiac motion which may lead to misdiagnosis, 2 - good image quality, cardiac motion artifacts hard to recognize and 3 - excellent image quality, no cardiac motion artifacts observed). Please note that the poor scores obtained for subject 7 are due to respiration induced motion artifacts