General Leung1, Donald B Plewes. 1. Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop a method of retrospectively correcting for motion artifacts using a variable-density spiral (VDS) trajectory. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Each VDS interleaf was designed to adequately sample the same center region of k-space. This central overlapping region can then be used to measure rigid body motion between the acquisition of each VDS interleaf. By applying appropriate phase shifts and rotations of the k-space data, rigid body motion artifacts can be removed, resulting in images with less motion corruption. RESULTS: Both phantom and volunteer experiments are shown, demonstrating the technique's ability to further reduce artifacts in images acquired with an already motion-resistant acquisition trajectory. Registration accuracy is highly dependent on the trajectory design parameters. This space was explored to find an optimal design of VDS trajectories for motion compensation. CONCLUSION: Using appropriately designed VDS trajectories, residual motion artifacts can be significantly reduced by retrospectively correcting for in-plane rigid body motion. An overlapping region of approximately 8% of the central region of k-space and approximately 70 interleaves were found to be near-optimal parameters for retrospective correction using VDS trajectories.
PURPOSE: To develop a method of retrospectively correcting for motion artifacts using a variable-density spiral (VDS) trajectory. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Each VDS interleaf was designed to adequately sample the same center region of k-space. This central overlapping region can then be used to measure rigid body motion between the acquisition of each VDS interleaf. By applying appropriate phase shifts and rotations of the k-space data, rigid body motion artifacts can be removed, resulting in images with less motion corruption. RESULTS: Both phantom and volunteer experiments are shown, demonstrating the technique's ability to further reduce artifacts in images acquired with an already motion-resistant acquisition trajectory. Registration accuracy is highly dependent on the trajectory design parameters. This space was explored to find an optimal design of VDS trajectories for motion compensation. CONCLUSION: Using appropriately designed VDS trajectories, residual motion artifacts can be significantly reduced by retrospectively correcting for in-plane rigid body motion. An overlapping region of approximately 8% of the central region of k-space and approximately 70 interleaves were found to be near-optimal parameters for retrospective correction using VDS trajectories.
Authors: Jessica Schulz; Thomas Siegert; Enrico Reimer; Christian Labadie; Julian Maclaren; Michael Herbst; Maxim Zaitsev; Robert Turner Journal: MAGMA Date: 2012-06-13 Impact factor: 2.310