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Abstract #0656

Concurrent Field Monitoring in HCP dMRI at 7T: Correction for Eddy Current Induced Signal Blurring and Geometric Distortion.

Ruoyun Emily Ma1, Mehmet Akçakaya1,2, Steen Moeller1, Connor Benson1, Edward Auerbach1, Kâmil Uğurbil1, and Pierre-François Van de Moortele1
1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 2Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

DW-EPI at high diffusion gradients suffers from eddy current induced signal blurring and geometric distortion. In this study, concurrent monitoring of field evolution with NMR probes was implemented for HCP diffusion MRI acquisition at 7T. After image reconstruction with field correction, eddy current induced geometric distortion was largely removed, yielding similar level of correction obtained by data driven approaches such as EDDY. Signal blurring was further reduced than with EDDY. Future efforts will be made to quantify the impact on cortical tractography of this improved DW-EPI reconstruction.

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