Digestive motion including gas is the predominant source of artifacts for PRFS MR Thermometry monitored RF hyperthermia inside the pelvis. Gastrointestinal motion of gas introduces large field variations inside the pelvis, thus significantly hampers PRFS based MR temperature reading. The estimation of these dipolar field disturbances from a changing susceptibility distribution is very exact in case we know the mask of Δχ, as shown with a phantom experiment. But using the PDF method, which allows a heterogeneous distribution of Δχ-values in the background, the temperature error could be reduced to noise level for in-vivo data in presence of susceptibility artefacts as well.
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