Chun-yu Yip1, Daehyun Yoon2, Valur Olafsson2, Sangwoo Lee3, William A. Grissom4, Jeffrey A. Fessler2, Douglas C. Noll5
1A.A. Martinos Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; 2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 3GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA; 4Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; 5Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
T2*-weighted functional MR images suffer from signal loss artifacts caused by the magnetic susceptibility differences between air cavities and brain tissues.