Patent ID: 7702376

Claim:
A method for electrocardiogram (ECG) triggering of a measuring sequence of a magnetic resonance device, comprising: detecting a first ECG signal and a second ECG signal of a patient via a first ECG channel and a second ECG channel; generating a respective derivation or a respective norm of the derivation of the first and second ECG signals; signal processing the first and second ECG signals to create respective threshold values of the first and second ECG signals; determining when any one of the first and second ECG signals exceeds a corresponding threshold value; determining, in both the first ECG channel and the second ECG channel, when the respective derivation or the respective norm of the derivation of both the first and second ECG signals are simultaneously within respective intervals of the first and second ECG channels, wherein one of the intervals of the channels is defined based on a lower and upper limit values of a respective one of the first and second ECG signals; and triggering the measuring sequence upon a concurrent determination that 1) any one of the first and second ECG signals exceeds the corresponding threshold value, and 2) that, in both the first ECG channel and the second ECG channel, the respective derivation or the respective norm of the derivation of both the first and second ECG signals are simultaneously within the respective intervals of the first and second ECG channels.