Question 1

What context should a research site provide for a 7T cardiac MRI study?

Accepted Answer

Provide the study context and available acquisition metadata required by your site or trial workflow. Harkheart intake checks whether the received study is identifiable and sufficiently described for downstream quality control; exact submission fields and transfer-path requirements are operational questions to confirm during onboarding.

Question 2

What happens when intake receives a 7T cardiac MRI study?

Accepted Answer

Intake records the arrival, associates the supplied study context, and checks basic completeness before routing the study into the motion-correction and QC workflow. This is an operational readiness step, not a clinical interpretation or diagnosis.

Question 3

What does motion correction do, and what does it not address?

Accepted Answer

Motion correction reduces the effect of displacement and temporal inconsistency in an eligible cine series so downstream checks can assess it more consistently. It cannot restore missing data, remove every acquisition artifact, correct inadequate signal, or replace a subspecialist’s clinical review.

Question 4

What does automated quality control check, and what does a pass mean?

Accepted Answer

Automated QC checks the technical and image-quality signals configured for the study workflow and determines whether the received series is usable for the next operational step. A pass means those automated checks met their configured criteria; it is not a diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a guarantee that a study is clinically complete.

Question 5

What happens when QC is incomplete or fails?

Accepted Answer

The study remains in an operational review state while the team determines whether it can be reprocessed, needs site clarification, or requires a different review path. A failed or incomplete QC status describes workflow readiness, not a patient condition; site-specific retry and reacquisition procedures should be confirmed with operations.

Question 6

How does urgency scoring prioritize operational review?

Accepted Answer

Urgency scoring ranks the operational queue using the available intake context and workflow signals so the appropriate review work can be prioritized. It supports coordination for research hospitals and trial sites; it does not diagnose a patient, predict outcome, determine treatment, or promise a response time.

Question 7

When and how is a subspecialist escalated?

Accepted Answer

A subspecialist is considered when QC remains unresolved, available workflow signals call for human review, or a site or trial protocol requires escalation. Harkheart routes the study context and review status to the appropriate reader; the reader makes the clinical interpretation. Notification coverage and escalation timing are operational questions to confirm with Harkheart.

7T cardiac MRI quality-control FAQ

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