About the Authors

Marcel Prothmann

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

Florian von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

Agnieszka Töpper

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

Matthias A. Dieringer

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

Etham Shahid

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Graessl

Affiliation Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jan Rieger

Affiliation MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Darius Lysiak

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany

C. Thalhammer

Affiliation Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Till Huelnhagen

Affiliation Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Peter Kellman

Affiliation National Institutes of Health / NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thoralf Niendorf

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany

Jeanette Schulz-Menger

Jeanette.Schulz-Menger@charite.de

Affiliations Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Thoralf Niendorf is founder and CEO of MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Jan Rieger is founder and CTO of MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Darius Lysiak is currently an employee of MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Thoralf Niendorf, Jan Rieger and Darius Lysiak from MRI.TOOLS GmbH provided the easyACT (an acoustic a triggering/gating device) together with the RF coil array used in this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSM MP. Performed the experiments: JSM MP AT FvK. Analyzed the data: MP ES FvK JSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TN PK CT TH MD AG DL JR. Wrote the paper: MP JSM TN.