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Introduction  \nMagnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been listed as the single most important medical innovation, on par with CT scanning (Fuchs & Sox 2001) . In current clinical MRI ECG is being using for three major purposes. Firstly, heart motion, blood flow and blood pulsation are commonly dealt with using electrocardiogram (ECG) for synchronization of MR data acquisition with the cardiac cycle (Lanzer [et.al. 1984](et.al. 1984)) to address or compensate for cardiac activity related motion artifacts which is of paramount importance for an ever growing portfolio of cardiovascular MR (CMR) and neurovascular MR (NVMR) applications (Assomull [et.al. 2007](et.al. 2007), Kelle [et.al. 2008](et.al. 2008), Kramer [et.al. 2008](et.al. 2008), Kwong & Korlakunta 2008, Niendorf [et.al. 2006](et.al. 2006), Niendorf & Sodickson 2008, Niendorf & Sodickson 2006, Niendorf [et.al. 2010](et.al. 2010), Pennell [et.al. 2004](et.al. 2004), Schwitter 2008). Secondly, ECG is widely  \nused to simultaneously register cardiac activity with MRI; for example to eliminate physiological fluctuations from brain activation maps derived from functional MRI studies (Purdon & Weisskoff 1998) . Thirdly, there are an increasing number of clinical applications that require ECG monitoring prior to/after the MR examination while the patient is still in the MR environment but outside of the MR scanners bore using ECG devices as a patient emergency indicator.  \nECG waveform acquisitions, ECG co-registration and ECG monitoring during MRI pose technical challenges and requires safety measures that will not be familiar to users of other conventional ECG technologies. For all those reasons, the basic principles of using ECG inan MRI environment and their implications for clinical MRI and MRI research are provided in this chapter. Key concepts, technical solutions, practical considerations and safety implications for cardiac gated MRI using electrocardiograms are outlined. Unsolved technical problems and unmet clinical needs are also considered carefully, in an attempt to stimulate the community to throw further weight behind the solutions of remaining issues. Driven by the limitations and motivated by the challenges of ECG, the need for novel cardiac gating/triggering technology is discussed. Current trends, such as the trend towards wireless techniques and the move to acoustic cardiac gating techniques, and their  \n[www.intechopen.com](www.intechopen.com)  \nimplications for daily routine MR applications are surveyed. Demonstrable progress ingating/triggering technology and methodology is shown to provide further encouragement for the imaging community to tackle solutions of the outstanding issues. A concluding section of the presentation explores future directions fueled by a set of alternative gating/triggering techniques.  \n2. Clinical needs for ECG in MRI  \nMRI is not a real time imaging modality. In day-to-day clinical routine MRI data acquisition is commonly propagated over a series of cardiac cycles. Consequently, cardiac activity can degrade image quality, particularly when motion suppression techniques are unavailable, unsuccessful or not utilized. The challenge of synchronization of data acquisition with the cardiac cycle constitutes a practical impediment of MRI so that MRI of the heart, large vessels and other organs experiencing motion related to cardiac activity requires speed and efficiency due to cardiac motion and flow constraints, which dictate the viable window for data acquisition.  \nThe need for speed and efficiency prompted the development of various cardiac motion compensation and cardiac motion synchronization techniques. Cardiac motion","cbCaieYhmfgsQGA3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieYhmfgsQGA3","pdf",633746,17,"English","# Introduction\n# Clinical needs for ECG in MRI\n## Cardiac motion and image degradation\n## ECG-driven cardiac gating and triggering regimes","[{\"question\":\"Why is ECG important for cardiac-gated MRI?\",\"answer\":\"MRI data acquisition is typically spread over multiple cardiac cycles, and cardiac activity can degrade image quality. 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