Abstract #1829

Phase-Encode Ghosting Detection using Multi-Channel Coil Arrays

Tom Hilbert^1,2,3, Tobias Kober^1,2,3, Jean-Philippe Thiran^2,3, Reto Meuli², and Gunnar Krueger^2,3,4

¹Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology (HC CMEA SUI DI BM PI), Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Department of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, ³LTS5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Boston, MA, United States

Phase-encode ghosting artifacts frequently occur in magnetic resonance imaging, especially in spin-echo sequence derivatives such as fluid-attenuated inversion recovery. The appearance of these artifacts may cause misinterpretation as tissue pathology, e.g. a lesion. We propose an algorithm to automatically detect these artifacts by analyzing the consistency of the acquired k-space with respect to the assumption of GRAPPA that a k-space sample is a linear sum of its neighboring samples. The performance of the technique is shown in three volunteers. It may help to avoid potential misinterpretation in the future, both for radiological readers and automated post-processing algorithms.

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