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Abstract #4178

Exhaustive Comparison of QSM Background Field Removal and Masking using a Realistic Numerical Head Phantom

Carlos Milovic1,2, Patrick Fuchs3, Oriana Arsenov3, Oliver C Kiersnowski3, Russell Murdoch3, Laxmi Muralidharan3, Jannette Nassar3, and Karin Shmueli3
1School of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile, 2iHEALTH, Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering, Santiago, Chile, 3University College London, London, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Susceptibility, Susceptibility, QSMRemoving background fields is an important preprocessing step in QSM, enabling the reconstruction of fine tissue susceptibility variations in the region of interest (ROI) without being corrupted by susceptibility sources outside of this region. This requires a binary mask of the ROI and most background field removal methods are sensitive to the choice of mask. Here we compared 15 background field removal methods across 4 different masks. We found projection onto dipole fields (PDF) to perform best overall, although it is sensitive to the mask. V-SHARP and RESHARP were more robust to masking and showed good performance.

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