. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Jun 10;66(6):1674–1681. doi: 10.1002/mrm.22950

Table 1.

Subjective RCA image scores for retrospective NAV and CosMo with different gating windows for proximal, mid and distal segments. No statistically significant difference was found between the two techniques.

Window Size	NAV Technique	Gating Efficiency	PROX	MID	DIS
3 mm	Retro NAV	N/A	3.1±0.6	2.9±0.6	2.4±0.8
3 mm	CosMo	47%	3.1± 0.7	2.6±0.9	2.4±0.8
5 mm	Retro NAV	N/A	2.8±0.4	2.9±0.6	2.3±0.4
5 mm	CosMo	57%	2.8±0.7	2.8±0.8	2.3±0.7
7 mm	Retro NAV	N/A	3.1±0.6	2.9±0.6	2.7±0.7
7 mm	CosMo	64%	2.6±0.7	2.5±1.0	2.1±0.7
10 mm	Retro NAV	N/A	2.6±0.7	2.6±0.7	2.3±0.7
10 mm	CosMo	76%	2.5±0.5	2.3±0.8	2.1±0.9
5 mm & 10 mm	Retro NAV	N/A	3.0±0.7	3.0±0.5	2.5±0.5
5 mm & 10 mm	CosMo	62%	2.8±0.7	2.8±0.8	2.1±0.9