Impact of Acquisition Automation on the Duration and Quality of Cardiac MRI Examinations

The main hypothesis is that fully automated cardiac MRI protocols require shorter overall scan times than manually acquired, human-executed protocols. The objective will be to demonstrate that automating the examination allows to shorten the scan time, leading to increased patient comfort and clinical flexibility. The study's secondary objective will be to demonstrate the non-inferiority of the automated protocol compared to human acquisition in terms of resulting planning quality and error occurrence during slice planning.

Included patients will undergo clinical cMRI following international and national standards: only the acquisition strategy will vary. The investigators will successively recruit patients presenting for routine cardiac MRI. The acquisition strategy of the MRI - either automated or manual - will alternate to avoid comparison bias.

The MRI protocol will be the same for both arms and consists of standardized sequences acquired before and after contrast administration. Recruitment will be performed at a single location, in the radiology department. Patients will be recruited on a daily, consecutive basis during clinical practice.

No questionnaire will be used for this study. No biological material will be sampled. Observational data about the acquisition process, potential errors, and patient characteristics will be recorded.