A Novel Gating Technique for Cardiac NMR Imaging using Heartbeat Time Intervals Forecast

Most of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Imaging techniques require to send and receive long electromagnetic pulse sequences [1]. To scan regions of the body which remain static is relatively simple, but in the case of Cardiac Imaging, due to the continuous movement of the heart, the pulse sequences have to be divided and its parts sent during different heartbeats in order to capture the heart always at the desired phase of its cycle. Therefore, a single image normally contains the averaged information of 256 heartbeats.