For in-vivo cardiac diffusion-tensor MRI (DT-MRI), respiratory motion and B0 field inhomogeneities produce misalignment and geometric distortion in diffusion weighted images acquired with conventional single shot echo planar imaging. We propose using Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE), a dimensionality reduction method, to retrospectively estimate the respiratory phase of DWI and facilitate both distortion correction (DisCo) and motion compensation (MoCo). LE-based DisCo and MoCo reduces geometric distortion by 13.2% while producing computationally efficient image alignment. Furthermore, preliminary results indicate the LE-based DisCo and MoCo can be applied with only acquiring a single set of b-value averages.
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