by Uten Yarach, Chaiya Luengviriya, Daniel Stucht, Frank Godenschweger, Peter Schulze, Oliver Speck
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Prospective motion correction can effectively fix the imaging volume of interest. For large motion, this can lead to relative motion of coil sensitivities, distortions associated with imaging gradients and B 0 field variations. This work accounts for the B 0 field change due to subject movement, and proposes a method for correcting tissue magnetic susceptibility-related distortion in prospective motion correction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The B 0 field shifts at the different head orientations were characterized. A volunteer performed large motion with prospective motion correction enabled. The acquired data were divided into multiple groups according to the object positions. The correction of B 0-related distortion was applied to each group of data individually via augmented sensitivity encoding with additionally integrated gradient nonlinearity correction. RESULTS: The relative motion of the gradients, B 0 field and coil sensitivities in prospective motion correction results in residual spatial distortion, blurring, and coil artifacts. These errors can be mitigated by the proposed method. Moreover, iterative conjugate gradient optimization with regularization provided superior results with smaller RMSE in comparison to standard conjugate gradient. CONCLUSION: The combined correction of B 0-related distortion and gradient nonlinearity leads to a reduction of residual motion artifacts in prospective motion correction data.
Reference:
Correction of B 0-induced geometric distortion variations in prospective motion correction for 7T MRI. (Uten Yarach, Chaiya Luengviriya, Daniel Stucht, Frank Godenschweger, Peter Schulze, Oliver Speck), In Magma (New York, N.Y.), volume 29, 2016.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{yarach_correction_2016,
	title = {Correction of {B} 0-induced geometric distortion variations in prospective motion correction for 7T {MRI}.},
	volume = {29},
	issn = {1352-8661 0968-5243},
	doi = {10.1007/s10334-015-0515-2},
	abstract = {OBJECTIVE: Prospective motion correction can effectively fix the imaging volume of interest. For large motion, this can lead to relative motion of coil sensitivities, distortions associated with imaging gradients and B 0 field variations. This work accounts for the B 0 field change due to subject movement, and proposes a method for correcting tissue magnetic susceptibility-related distortion in prospective motion correction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The B 0 field shifts at the different head orientations were characterized. A volunteer performed large motion with prospective motion correction enabled. The acquired data were divided into multiple groups according to the object positions. The correction of B 0-related distortion was applied to each group of data individually via augmented sensitivity encoding with additionally integrated gradient nonlinearity correction. RESULTS: The relative motion of the gradients, B 0 field and coil sensitivities in prospective motion correction results in residual spatial distortion, blurring, and coil artifacts. These errors can be mitigated by the proposed method. Moreover, iterative conjugate gradient optimization with regularization provided superior results with smaller RMSE in comparison to standard conjugate gradient. CONCLUSION: The combined correction of B 0-related distortion and gradient nonlinearity leads to a reduction of residual motion artifacts in prospective motion correction data.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Magma (New York, N.Y.)},
	author = {Yarach, Uten and Luengviriya, Chaiya and Stucht, Daniel and Godenschweger, Frank and Schulze, Peter and Speck, Oliver},
	month = jun,
	year = {2016},
	pmid = {26861047},
	pmcid = {PMC4933014},
	keywords = {Augmented SENSE, B0 field variations, Coil sensitivity, Gradient nonlinearity, Prospective motion correction},
	pages = {319--332}
}