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Fetal Cardiac MRI

Do you want to know what is new in the world of fetal cardiac MRI?

Then check out this page and learn about the latest insight and the newest possibilities with fetal cardiac gating.

Reference Sites

Fetal cardiac MR is rapidly increasing worldwide. Here you can find an overview of which centers do already perform fetal CMR with Doppler Ultrasound gating.

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Recent Publications

Fetal cardiac MRI is rapidly increasing worldwide and so does the research around fetal cardiac MRI. Here you can find the latest publications in the field of fetal cardiac MRI.

A comparative study of fetal cardiovascular assessment: utilizing Doppler ultrasound gated MRI and echocardiography with detailed analysis using five axial views

B. Hergert et al.

Cardiovascular Imaging

09/24

The New Frontiers of Fetal Imaging:
MRI Insights into Cardiovascular
and Thoracic Structures

G. Cundari et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine

08/24

Predictive Capability of Fetal 4D Flow and Black Blood Slice to Volume Reconstruction for Prenatal Diagnosis of Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA)

R. Friesen et al.

Journal of Cardiovascular
Magentic Resonance

03/24

Fetal Cardiac MRI Using
Doppler US Gating: Emerging Technology and Clinical Implications

T. Vollbrecht et al.

Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging

04/24

Myocardial strain assessment in the human fetus by cardiac MRI using Doppler ultrasound gating and feature tracking

M. D. Barough et al.

European Radiology

01/24

“It's not just the medical aspects that are important”: A qualitative exploration of first-time parents' experiences of antenatal imaging and their influence on parent-fetal bonding

E. Skelton et al.

Radiography

11/23

Utility of Fetal Cardiac Resonance Imaging
in Prenatal Clinical Practice:
Current State of the Art

A. Pozza et al.

Diagnostics

11/23

Integration of Prenatal Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in
Congenital Heart Disease

A. Desmond et al.

Journal of the American Heart Association

11/23

Fetal Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Descending Aorta
in Suspected Left-Sided Cardiac Obstructions

K. Fricke et al.

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

11/23

Advances in Fetal Cardiac
Imaging
and Intervention

N. Barber, L. Freud

CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

11/23

Reference Values for Fetal Cardiac Dimensions, Volumes, Ventricular Function and Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Using Doppler Ultrasound Gated Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Healthy Third Trimester Fetuses

P. Minocha et al.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

10/23

Deep Learning Denoising
Reconstruction for Improved
Image Quality in Fetal Cardiac Cine MRI

T. M. Vollbrecht et al.

The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

09/23

The current state
and potential innovation
of fetal cardiac MRI

M. Udine et al.

Frontiers in Pediatrics

07/23

Fetal Cardiac MRI 
of Complex 
Interrupted Aortic Arch 

T. M. Vollbrecht et al.

Images in Radiology

05/23

Feasibility of Non-Gated Dynamic 
Fetal Cardiac MRI for Identification of Fetal Cardiovascular Anatomy

J. Geiger et al.

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

04/23

D-Transposition of the great arteries with restrictive foramen ovale in the fetus: the dilemma of predicting the need for postnatal urgent balloon atrial septostomy

I. Gottschalk et al.

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

03/23

Four-Dimensional Fetal Cardiac Imaging
in a cohort of Fetuses with
suspected Congenital Heart Disease

N. C. Rubert et al.

Pediatric Radiology

02/23

Fetal Cardiac Cine MRI with

Doppler US Gating in

Complex Congenital Heart Disease

T. M. Vollbrecht et al.

Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging

02/23

Comment: Fetal Cardiac MRI:

Doppler US-gated Cine Imaging in Complex Congenital Heart Disease

D. M. Biko, M. A. Fogel

Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging

02/23

Fetal 4D flow MRI of the great thoracic vessels

at 3 Tesla using Doppler-ultrasound gating:

a feasibility study

J. Knapp et al.

European Radiology

10/22

Fetal 3D cardiovascular cine

image acquisition using radial

sampling and compressed sensing

M. Piek et al.

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

09/22

Super-Resolution Cine
Image Enhancement for Fetal Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

K. Berggren et al.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

07/22

Fetal Cardiovascular MRI - A Systemic Review of the Literature: Challenges, New Technical Developments, and Perspectives

J. Knapp et al.

RöFo

07/22

03/21

JAMA Network Open

D. Ryd et al.

Utility of Fetal Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for Prenatal Diagnosis of

Complex Congenital Heart Defects

Fetal Cardiac MRI:

A Review of Technical

Advancements

C. W. Roy et al.

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

10/19

Physiological Fetal Cardiac Anatomy

Pathological Fetal CHD

Info Material

Case Reports

Read about cases from hospitals around the world. How are they using smart-sync?

Which diagnoses benefit from the use of smart-sync? Where do they see added clinical value?

Find the answers in these reports:

CC - TGA

CC - TGA

University Hospital Bonn

D - TGA

D - TGA

University Hospital Bonn

Dextroposition of the Fetal Heart

Dextroposition of the Fetal Heart

Phoenix Children's Hospital

Interrupted aortic arch and hypoplastic ascending aorta

Interrupted aortic arch and hypoplastic ascending aorta

University Children`s Hospital Zürich

Pataus Syndrom

Pataus Syndrom

Hospital Universitario Quironsalud Madrid

Customer Experience

Hear from active smart-sync users. Where do they see a need for fetal cardiac MRI?

How did they achieve funding for the device? How was their experience with buying smart-sync?

Drs. Browne & Barker

Drs. Browne & Barker

Dr. Malenka Bissell

Dr. Malenka Bissell

Info Material

Download all the Information you need about smart-sync here.

Brochure (english)

Brochure (english)

Brochure (french)

Brochure (french)

Brochure (spanish)

Brochure (spanish)

Study: Utility of Fetal cMRI

Study: Utility of Fetal cMRI

Exam Cards

If your staff are familiar with adult or pediatric cardiac MRI, there is no additional training required to use smart-sync successfully from the first scan on. Slight adaptations for the fetus can be done by yourself or you can use the Exam Cards we provide.

You can download Exam Cards for Philips Scanners here:

Exam Cards for Siemens or GE Scanners can be requested directly with us.

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