Diffusion MRI is prone to fat-shift artefacts, especially in accelerated diffusion MRI with higher b-values. Building on the property that the fat signal localisation depends on the phase encoding direction, we propose to suppress fat-shift artefacts in post-processing using localised outlier rejection across 4 different phase encoding directions. To this end, we extend a retrospective diffusion MRI motion correction framework with local outlier weights, defined as a voxel-wise measure of the MR reconstruction residuals. Comparative results in a pediatric brain imaging cohort show that the proposed method reduces fat-shift artefacts in the parenchyma without affecting the reconstruction in uncorrupted regions.
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