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Abstract #5105

Correction of Eddy Current Induced Phase Variations between Imaging and Navigator Echoes in High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

Shihui Chen1, Liyuan Liang1,2, Chenglang Yuan1, and Hing-Chiu Chang1,2
1The Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2Multi-scale Medical Robotics Center, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Synopsis

Keywords: Diffusion Reconstruction, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, 2D navigator, eddy current, phase correction, High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging

Motivation: The time-varying eddy current caused by diffusion gradient can induce additional phase difference between imaging and navigator echoes. These inaccurate measurements may cause residual artifacts in the subsequently reconstructed data.

Goal(s): This study aims to verify the presence of the eddy-current-induced phase differences in navigator echoes and the phase correction can improve reconstruction performance on in-vivo DTI and HARDI.

Approach: We proposed a procedure to calibrate eddy-current-induced phase difference from a phantom and considered the additional phase difference when using k-d SVD method for reconstruction.

Results: The robust reconstruction performance can be achieved by using phase-corrected navigator data to recover highly-undersampled data.

Impact: This study demonstrates that the eddy-current-induced phase differences between imaging and navigator echoes can be calibrated in advance, and then corrected during the k-d SVD reconstruction method to enable highly-accelerated multi-shot high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI).

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