Distortion correction in EPI at ultra-high-field MRI using PSF mapping with optimal combination of shift detection dimension
- Authors
- Oh, Se-Hong; Chung, Jun-Young; In, Myung-Ho; Zaitsev, Maxim; Kim, Young-Bo; Speck, Oliver; Cho, Zang-Hee
- Issue Date
- Oct-2012
- Publisher
- WILEY-BLACKWELL
- Keywords
- echo planar imaging; EPI; point spread function; combined PSF mapping; geometric distortion; distortion correction; PSF-ghost artifact
- Citation
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, v.68, no.4, pp.1239 - 1246
- Journal Title
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
- Volume
- 68
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 1239
- End Page
- 1246
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/16115
- DOI
- 10.1002/mrm.23317
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
- Abstract
- Despite its wide use, echo-planar imaging (EPI) suffers from geometric distortions due to off-resonance effects, i.e., strong magnetic field inhomogeneity and susceptibility. This article reports a novel method for correcting the distortions observed in EPI acquired at ultra-high-field such as 7 T. Point spread function (PSF) mapping methods have been proposed for correcting the distortions in EPI. The PSF shift map can be derived either along the nondistorted or the distorted coordinates. Along the nondistorted coordinates more information about compressed areas is present but it is prone to PSF-ghosting artifacts induced by large k-space shift in PSF encoding direction. In contrast, shift maps along the distorted coordinates contain more information in stretched areas and are more robust against PSF-ghosting. In ultra-high-field MRI, an EPI contains both compressed and stretched regions depending on the B0 field inhomogeneity and local susceptibility. In this study, we present a new geometric distortion correction scheme, which selectively applies the shift map with more information content. We propose a PSF-ghost elimination method to generate an artifact-free pixel shift map along nondistorted coordinates. The proposed method can correct the effects of the local magnetic field inhomogeneity induced by the susceptibility effects along with the PSF-ghost artifact cancellation. We have experimentally demonstrated the advantages of the proposed method in EPI data acquisitions in phantom and human brain using 7-T MRI. Magn Reson Med, 2012. (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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