Table 1 Overview on measurements corrupted with motion on different timepoints of the scan (sections).

From: Structured analysis of the impact of fetal motion on phase-contrast MRI flow measurements with metric optimized gating

Timepoint and speed of motion

No motion

First section

Middle section

Last section

Baseline

Control

Slow

Fast

Slow

Fast

Slow

Fast

Mean heart rate (± SD) by ECG in 1/min

64.2 (± 10.6)

63.0 (± 9.4)

63.3 (± 10.1)

63,4 (± 9,5)

62.4 (± 9.4)

62.8 (± 9.2)

63.1(10.5)

62.7 (± 9.5)

Number of scans with successful MOG/total number of scans available for MOG

20/20

20/20

20/20

19/19

18/20

19/19

20/20

19/19

Mean heart rate (± SD) by MOG in 1/min

64.5 (± 10.9)

63.1 (± 9.1)

61.35 (± 10.7)

63.1 (± 8.6)

60.8 (± 12.9)

57.85 (± 7.0)

61.7 (± 11.3)

62.25 (± 9.1)

Difference between heart rate by ECG and MOG (± SD) in 1/min; p-value

− 0.3 (± 4.3); 0.83

− 0.1 (± 1.4); 0.91

1.95 (± 2.2); 0.02

0.3 (± 2.1); 0.66

1.6 (± 8.8); 0.58

4.9 (± 4.9); 0.01

1.4 (± 1.6); 0.02

0.45 (± 1.2); 0.28

Corrected motion amplitude (range) in mm/variability (± SD) over the protocol in mm

11.2 (9.4–13.8)/0.04 (± 0.39)

Corrected motion speed (cm/s)

0.57 (± 0.13)

1.15 (± 0.27)

0.57 (± 0.13)

1.15 (± 0.27)

0.57 (± 0.13)

1.15 (± 0.27)

Successful measurements of the carotid artery/total scans available after MOG

20/20

20/20

20/20

19/19

18/18

19/19

20/20

19/19

Carotid artery: mean flow rate (ml/kg/min)

4.2 (± 1.1)

4.2 (± 1.2)

4.3 (± 1.1)

4.2 (1.2)

2.5 (± 1.1)

2.8 (± 1.1)

4.2 (± 1.1)

4.2 (± 1.1)

Carotid artery: mean difference from baseline (± SD) in %

− 0.3 (± 7.3)

1.7 (± 6.4)

0.8 (± 6.9)

− 39.1 (± 20.6)

− 32.1 (± 17.9)

0.8 (± 4.2)

1.0 (± 6.5)

Carotid artery: p-values

0.9997

0.7109

0.9945

< 0.0001

< 0.0001

0.9215

0.969

Carotid artery: mean flow difference between fast and slow motion (± SD) in %; p-value

1.0 (± 3.9); 0.27

6.9 (± 14.3); 0.04

0.2 (± 3.8); 0.81

Successful measurements of the jugular vein/total scans available after MOG

19/20

19/20

19/20

18/19

16/18

17/19

19/20

18/19

Jugular vein: mean flow rate (ml/kg/min)

3.1 (± 1.1)

3.1 (± 2.1)

3.1 (± 2.0)

3.0 (± 2.2)

2.2 (± 1.6)

1.8 (± 1.8)

3.1 (± 2.2)

3.1 (± 2.2)

Jugular vein: mean difference from baseline (± SD) in %

− 5.8 (± 14.1)

− 1.6 (± 21.0)

− 4.2 (± 19.5)

− 36.1 (± 33.1)

− 47.0 (± 26.9)

− 0.9 (± 12.8)

− 5.6 (± 25.1)

Jugular vein: p-values

0.4265

0.9996

0.9048

0.0015

< 0.0001

0.9996

0.8797

Jugular vein: mean flow difference between fast and slow motion (± SD) in %; p-value

− 5.0 (± 27.7); 0.47

− 10.9 (± 37); 0.23

− 4.7 (± 20.8); 0.35

CoV (± SD) of two repeats in %

5.9 (± 11.3)

6.4 (± 8.7)

5.6 (± 8.4)

7.1 (± 14.2)

32.5 (± 35.5)

25.0 (± 31.0)

5.7 (± 7.2)

4.9 (± 9.6)

Mean score of raw image data

0

0

0.9

0.8

2

2

0.8

0.9

  1. CoV coefficient of variation, SD standard deviation.
  2. Significant values are in bold.