Alan Christopher O'Connor1, Mehdi Hedjazi
Moghari1, Peng Hu1, Dana C. Peters1, Warren
J. Manning1, Reza Nezafat1, Roger Ware Brockett2
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 2SEAS, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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correction methods were developed to increase the gating window size possible
for free-breathing cardiac MRI and consequently reduce scan time. These methods typically rely on a generic
scale-factor between measured diaphragm motion and heart motion. We present a novel scheme for estimating
patient-, direction-, and coil-specific motion vectors directly from the scan
data to correct for phase errors caused by respiratory motion of the heart.