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Abstract #2333

Motion Estimation and Retrospective Correction in 2D Cartesian Turbo Spin Echo Spine Scans

Bryan Clifford1, Wei-Ching Lo1, Daniel Polak2, Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff2, Julian Hossbach2,3, John Conklin4,5, Lawrence L Wald5,6,7, Susie Huang4,5,7, and Stephen Cauley1
1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Boston, MA, United States, 2Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, 3Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 4Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, 5Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 6Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, 7Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Caimbridge, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Spinal Cord, Motion Correction, MR Value, Body, Clinical Applications, Spine

Motivation: Patient motion during spine MRI significantly degrades diagnostic utility.

Goal(s): Demonstrate the benefits of an efficient retrospective motion correction technique across clinical 2D TSE spine protocols.

Approach: A rapid low-resolution scout scan in combination with a small number of additional calibration lines are utilized for on-the-fly bulk motion estimation. Region-targeting coil-combination methods are used to model non-rigid motion in the spine. Generalized reconstructions are performed using locally rigid motion information.

Results: Improved image quality for in vivo L- and C-spine scans utilizing partially non-rigid motion correction for instructed subject motion experiments.

Impact: A strategy for performing motion estimation and correction in TSE spine imaging is proposed. Region-targeting coil-combination methods allow for isolation of different spatial sources of non-rigid motion. Improved image quality is demonstrated in vivo under supervised motion conditions.

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