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Abstract #2360

B0 field distortions monitoring and correction for 3D non-Cartesian fMRI acquisitions using a field camera: Application to 3D-SPARKLING at 7T

Zaineb Amor1, Chaithya G.R.1,2, Caroline Le Ster1, Guillaume Daval-Frérot1,2,3, Nicolas Boulant1, Franck Mauconduit1, Christian Mirkes4, Philippe Ciuciu1,2, and Alexandre Vignaud1
1Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Neurospin, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 2Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, Parietal, Palaiseau, France, 3Siemens Healthcare SAS, Saint Denis, France, 4Skope Magnetic Resonance Technologies AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Synopsis

The benefit of retrospective correction of static and dynamic $$$B_{0}$$$ field imperfections was studied on non-Cartesian compressed sensing-based acquisition patterns by taking as an example 3D-SPARKLING encoding scheme. Long-TR dynamic acquisitions of T2*-weighted MRI (fMRI-like) volumes were acquired at 7T, retrospectively corrected, and the evaluation of the corrections was based on the image quality and the gain in temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR). We found that correcting for the static and dynamic $$$0^{th}$$$ order contributions is enough to enhance the image quality and tSNR significantly (up to 22% gain in median tSNR).

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