Abstract #3740

Investigation of Vibration Induced Artifacts in Clinical Diffusion Weighted Imaging of the Brain

Madison Berl¹, Lindsay Walker², Joelle Sarlls³, Carlo Pierpaoli⁴

¹Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States; ²Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States; ³STBB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States; ⁴NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

We expand on a systematic vibration artifact in three important ways: 1) the artifact is more widespread than first described, 2) we offer another potential solution to reduce the artifact and 3) identify that the artifact may be the basis of a clinical misinterpretation that has been cited as evidence to change policy and practice.