pottedflower t1_j2drhg3 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 2:39 PM Reply to ELI5: How do they take an MRI of a heart when it's still pumping, and therefore moving? by Vespiri2d I asked my supervisor this when I was at uni and she said one method is to record the heartbeat and synchronise the image capture so that it takes the scans at the same point of each pump :) Permalink 53
pottedflower t1_j2drhg3 wrote
Reply to ELI5: How do they take an MRI of a heart when it's still pumping, and therefore moving? by Vespiri2d
I asked my supervisor this when I was at uni and she said one method is to record the heartbeat and synchronise the image capture so that it takes the scans at the same point of each pump :)