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Abstract #3178

A concomitant method to unwrap phase images with fringelines

Wen-Tung Wang 1 , Ningzhi Li 2 , Dzung Pham 3 , and John Anthony Butman 4

1 1Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD, United States, 2 Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation, MD, United States, 3 1Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Henry Jackson Foundation, MD, United States, 4 Diagnostic Radiology, National Institute of Health, MD, United States

A number of phase unwrapping algorithms can faithfully unwarp wrapped MRI phase images on a voxel-by-voxel basis. These sequential algorithms cannot unwrap phase fringelines, which terminate at singular poles. The method based on Fourier properties and trigonometric identities of the Laplacian operator can unwrap wrapped raw phase images with fringelines, but its resultant images show low-frequency deviation. By combining the Fourier method with a sequential algorithm by Cusack et al. using high- and low-pass filtering, the wrapped raw phase with fringelines can be unwrapped without low-frequency deviations.

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