Abstract #0157
Reduction of Susceptibility-Induced Field Gradients in Anisotropic Diffusion Fibre Phantoms using Susceptibility Matching
Johannes Lindemeyer 1 , Ezequiel Farrher 1 , Farida Grinberg 1,2 , Ana-Maria Oros-Peusquens 1 , and N. Jon Shah 1,2
1
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4,
INM-4, Medical Imaging Physics, Forschungszentrum Jlich
GmbH, Jlich, Germany,
2
Faculty
of Medicine, Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen
University, JARA, Aachen, Germany
In this work we present an approach to reduce the effect
of microscopic, susceptibility-induced field gradients
on diffusion metrics in artificial anisotropic fibre
phantoms. The approach relies on the use of MgCl2 to
match the magnetic susceptibility of the liquid to that
of the fibres.
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