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Abstract #0388

Navigator based prospective motion correction in short TR sequences with minimal scan time penalty

Adam van Niekerk1, Henric Rydén1,2, Sophie Shauman1, Ola Norbeck1,2, Tim Sprenger3, Enrico Avventi1,2, and Stefan Skare1,2
1Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3MR Applied Science Laboratory Europe, GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Motion Correction, Motion Correction

Motivation: Inserting navigators into short-TR gradient echo pulse sequences increases scan duration as the TR needs to be extended to maintain a steady-state.

Goal(s): Periodically interleave navigators without disrupting stead-state.

Approach: A packed pulse sequence encoding was implemented that divides the phase encoding table into partitions. Each partition begins with two blank-TRs that contain identical RF and spoiling to the parent sequence. The first blank-TR readout is replaced with a navigator acquisition. The second is replaced with computation time to perform a field of view update.

Results: The packed sequences reduced the time penalty from 1-minute to 3-13 seconds, without impacting motion correction efficacy.

Impact: The packed sequence structure allows researchers to augment the acquisition of short-TR GRE sequences with fast (<TR) navigators for almost no additional scan time without affecting motion correction efficacy, and is applicable to all sequences where the TR is minimised.

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