Eye Movement Artifact Suppression Via 2D Spatially Selective RF-Excitation

Paul Wighton¹, Matthew Dylan Tisdall¹, Andr J. W. van der Kouwe¹

In this abstract, we explore the suppression of eye-movement artifacts using a subject-specific, spatially-selective RF-excitation pulse designed to excite only the subject's brain, ensuring no signal (and therefore no artifact) originates from the eyes. A 3D-encoded FLASH sequence was augmented with a 2D-selective RF-excitation pulse. A subject specific 2D brain-excitation shape was generated using a FreeSurfer segmentation of the subject acquired in a previous scan. Compared to a conventional FLASH scan, eye-motion artifacts were significantly suppressed with our modified spatially-selective RF-excitation scan.