Jin Yamamura1, Bjoern Schoennagel1, Manuele Tavares de Sousa2, Christian Ruprecht1, Gerhard Adam1, and Fabian Kording1
1Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 2Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
The commonly
used method to evaluate the fetal heart is echocardiography (ECG). However, the
detection of congenital heart diseases by ECG varies from 45% to 74% and an
alternative imaging modality would be desirable. Fetal cardiac MRI has the potential to visualize anatomy and to assess
functional parameters of the fetal heart. External fetal cardiac gating using a
newly developed Doppler ultrasound sensor (DUS) has been introduced in
previous studies. The purpose of this study was to perform fetal cardiac MRI as
well as MR flow measurement within great vessels using for external fetal
cardiac gating in human fetus and to optimize the device.
