Gradient nonlinearities in MRI cause spatially-varying b-values and diffusion gradient directions. In this work, we analyze whether these nonlinearities have a significant impact on data reproducibility and accuracy for brain studies. Our results indicate that not only FA and TR values have an increasing bias away from the isocenter of the magnet, but also differences in subject positioning and head orientation combined with nonlinearities have a significant effect on reproducibility. The effects were also observed in principal eigenvector directions computed with the tensor model.
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