We propose a contact-free cardiac MRI triggering method based on reflected power measurements that requires no additional hardware other than that provided with a commercial parallel transmit (pTx) MRI scanner and evaluate the influence of B1+ shim on the cardiac information extracted. Time series of scattering matrices of the pTx monitoring system were used with random, uniformly distributed phases to simulate B1+ shims. Preliminary results in 7T MRI are shown with successfully, retrospectively gated 2D-CINE images using the proposed method.
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