Eva Rothgang1,2, Jrg Roland3,
Wesley D. Gilson2, Joachim Hornegger1, Christine H.
Lorenz2
1Pattern Recognition Lab,
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 2Center for
Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, MD, United
States; 3Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
PRF-derived temperature measurements are sensitive to patient motion and B0 drifts. The mean phase drift is often calculated from an area which is not heated and thus remains at reference temperature. However, this region can be difficult to place and its location and size highly influence the effectiveness of correction. On the contrary, we introduce a method which automatically corrects for B0 drift by determining the mean phase drift from all voxels which show a standard deviation smaller than a threshold the phase.