Abstract
When imaging the heart using MRI, an artefact-free electrocardiograph (ECG) signal is not only important for monitoring the patient’s heart activity but also essential for cardiac gating to reduce noise in MR images induced by moving organs. The fundamental problem in conventional ECG is the distortion induced by electromagnetic interference. Here, we propose an adaptive algorithm for the suppression of MR gradient artefacts (MRGAs) in ECG leads of a cardiac MRI gating system. We have modeled MRGAs by assuming a source of strong pulses used for dephasing the MR signal. The modeled MRGAs are rectangular pulse-like signals. We used an event-synchronous adaptive digital filter whose reference signal is synchronous to the gradient peaks of MRI. The event detection processor for the event-synchronous adaptive digital filter was implemented using the phase space method—a sort of topology mapping method—and least-squares acceleration filter. For evaluating the efficiency of the proposed method, the filter was tested using simulation and actual data. The proposed method requires a simple experimental setup that does not require extra hardware connections to obtain the reference signals of adaptive digital filter. The proposed algorithm was more effective than the multichannel approach.
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This study was supported by a grant from the Industrial Cluster Policy, Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea.
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Park, H., Park, Y., Cho, S. et al. New Cardiac MRI Gating Method Using Event-Synchronous Adaptive Digital Filter. Ann Biomed Eng 37, 2170–2187 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-009-9764-4
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