Fig. 2.

Cine vs. single-shot.

The pictogram displays when images are acquired throughout the cardiac cycle with each bar indicating a single frame. With a heart rate of 60 bpm, the duration of the cardiac cycle is 1 s (RR, interval between two R-spikes in the electrocardiogram). Both the breath-hold (OSbh-cine, frame rate = 25 s⁻¹) and real-time (OSft-rtcine, frame rate 21 s⁻¹) cines acquire multiple images throughout the cardiac cycle, whereas the single shot sequence only acquires one single frame in diastole requiring a longer acquisition window (OSfb-ss, one still image).