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Abstract #0965

Tracking head movement inside an MR scanner using voltages induced in coils by time-varying gradients

E. H. Bhuiyan1, G. S. Spencer1, P. M. Glover1, and R. Bowtell1

1Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

We evaluate a new approach for monitoring head movement inside an MR scanner, which exploits the linear variation of the voltages induced in a set of coils by time-varying magnetic field gradients with respect to small changes in position/orientation. This approach was tested by attaching five coils to a structured agar phantom and a healthy volunteer’s head. The results suggest that it is possible to estimate the position and orientation with 0.22mm and 0.24° root-mean-square error using this set-up. The new approach could be used for prospective or retrospective motion correction.

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