Abstract #0673

Calibrationless Deblurring of Spiral RT-MRI of Speech Production Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Yongwan Lim¹, Yannick Bliesener¹, Shrikanth Narayanan¹, and Krishna Nayak¹

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Spiral acquisitions are preferred in speech real-time MRI because of their high efficiency, making it possible to capture vocal tract dynamics during natural speech production. A fundamental limitation is signal loss and/or blurring due to off-resonance, which degrades image quality most significantly at air-tissue boundaries. Here, we present a machine learning method that corrects for off-resonance artifact in spiral images of upper airway without acquiring a field map. Residual neural networks are trained on images simulated with known spiral trajectories and readout duration. The off-resonance blurring is effectively resolved at the articulator boundaries for long readout (~8ms) images at 1.5T.

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