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Abstract #3702

Multidimensional Gradient Encoding: Artifacts Resulting from Destructive Signal Interference

Gerrit Schultz1, Stefan Kroboth2, Daniel Gallichan3, Jrgen Hennig1, Maxim Zaitsev1

1University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 2Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; 3Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland


The researcher or engineer who is working with nonlinear gradient fields is addressed. Maybe the most challenging problem with multi-dimensional trajectories is that they tend to be extremely sensitive to calibration errors. In this abstract a band-shaped artifact that may result from miscalibration is investigated and explained. The analysis reveals how such an artifact can be avoided when designing new multi-dimensional encoding schemes.