Real-time correction by optical tracking with integrated geometric distortion correction for reducing motion artifacts in functional MRI

David Rotenberg, Mark Chiew, Shawn Ranieri, Fred Tam, Rajiv Chopra, Simon J. Graham

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Abstract

Head motion artifacts are a major problem in functional MRI that limit its use in neuroscience research and clinical settings. Real-time scan-plane correction by optical tracking has been shown to correct slice misalignment and nonlinear spin-history artifacts; however, residual artifacts due to dynamic magnetic field nonuniformity may remain in the data. A recently developed correction technique, Phase Labeling for Additional Coordinate Encoding, can correct for absolute geometric distortion using only the complex image data from two echo planar images with slightly shifted k-space trajectories. An approach is presented that integrates Phase Labeling for Additional Coordinate Encoding into a real-time scan-plane update system by optical tracking, applied to a tissue-equivalent phantom undergoing complex motion and an functional MRI finger tapping experiment with overt head motion to induce dynamic field nonuniformity. Experiments suggest that such integrated volume-by-volume corrections are very effective at artifact suppression, with potential to expand functional MRI applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)734-748
Number of pages15
JournalMagnetic resonance in medicine
Volume69
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2013

Keywords

  • PLACE
  • echo planar imaging
  • functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • geometric distortion correction
  • optical tracking
  • real-time motion correction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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