Abstract #2697

Analysis and correction of eddy current induced artifacts in spiral phase contrast MRI using Point RESolved Spectroscopy

Rene Bastkowski¹, Kilian Weiss^1,2, David Maintz¹, and Daniel Giese¹

¹Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, ²Philips Healthcare, Hamburg, Germany

A novel method based on single-voxel-spectroscopy (PRESS) for the analysis and correction of eddy-current induced artefacts in spiral phase-contrast MRI is presented. It is demonstrated, that 0th and 1st order corrections result in residual background offsets of less than 0.5cm/s, inherently correcting for geometrical misalignments between flow acquisitions as well as 2nd order spatial phase offsets. The method does not require special hardware and can be applied as a pre-scan.

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