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Abstract #2596

Automatic removal of water bath artifacts from MR temperature maps in focused ultrasound neurosurgery

Pooja Gaur1,2, Beat Werner3, and William A Grissom1,2

1Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, 2Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, 3Center for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

During MR-guided focused ultrasound treatments in the brain, circulation of cool water around the head and ultrasound wave propagation create water motion during the signal readout, resulting in image artifacts. These artifacts vary across image dynamics, and are observable in magnitude and phase images and in temperature change maps measured during treatment. In this work, we apply a wavelet denoising algorithm to remove these artifacts from temperature maps during treatment. Results show that temperature errors can be corrected in patient data, in 0.2 s per map, suggesting that corrections could be performed during treatment.

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