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Abstract : Physiological monitoring is an important aspect of mouse imaging, both to ensure animal health during the imaging examination, as well as to characterize and control physiology during the procedure. Common needs for mouse physiological monitoring include body temperature, respiration and the cardiac cycle. Robust measurement of these parameters is typically challenging in the mouse, mainly due to the animal’s size. Fortunately, there are now a variety of commercially available sensors and complete integrated systems that facilitate this. Many of these are compatible with multiple imaging modalities across the major manufacturers, and incorporate software to record multiple physiological parameters in parallel. Software can also be used to provide signals that can be sent to the scanners to trigger image data acquisition with the respiratory and/or cardiac cycles .