Deep brain stimulation (DBS) fMRI has been considered as an emerging tool in investigating the DBS mechanisms and corresponding clinical outcomes, but suffers from severe susceptibility artifacts near metallic electrodes and tissue/air boundaries. A recent study showed that point spread function (PSF) mapping-based reverse gradient approach has a potential to correct distortions even in gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (GE-EPI) images with opposite phase-encoding polarity using a PSF dataset. To minimize the susceptibility artifacts, in this study, we apply the PSF approach for DBS-fMRI in swine. The results demonstrate that this approach can be beneficial for improving the reliability of DBS-fMRI.
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