Improving the robustness of 3D turbo spin echo imaging to involuntary motion

Autor: Jürgen Hennig, Guobin Li, Esther Raithel, Jan G. Korvink, Martin Büchert, Maxim Zaitsev, Dominik Paul
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine. 28:329-345
ISSN: 1352-8661
0968-5243
Popis: 3D TSE imaging is very prone to motion artifacts, especially from uncooperative patients, because of the long scan duration. The need to repeat this time-consuming 3D acquisition in the event of large motion artifacts substantially reduces patient comfort and increases the workload of the scanner. A new sampling strategy enables homogenized collection of k-space data for 3D TSE imaging. It is combined with Frobenius norm-based motion-detection to enable freely stopped acquisition in 3D TSE imaging whenever excessive subject motion is detected. The feasibility and reliability of the proposed method were demonstrated and evaluated in in-vivo experiments. It is shown that the additional overhead related to repeat scanning of the 3D TSE sequence as a result of patient motion can be substantially reduced by using the homogenized k-space sampling strategy with automatic scan completion as determined by Frobenius norm-based motion-detection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE