Sources and correction of higher-order geometrical distortion for serial MR brain imaging

Mark Holden; Marcel M. Breeuwer; Kate McLeish; David John Hawkes; Stephen F. Keevil; Derek L.G. Hill

doi:10.1117/12.431151

3 July 2001 Sources and correction of higher-order geometrical distortion for serial MR brain imaging

Mark Holden, Marcel M. Breeuwer, Kate McLeish, David John Hawkes, Stephen F. Keevil, Derek L.G. Hill

Proceedings Volume 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431151
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A specially designed phantom consisting of a 3D array of 427 accurately manufactured spheres together with a point-based registration algorithm was used to detect distortion described by polynomial orders 1-4. More than thirty 3D gradient echo (FFE) and multi-slice spin echo (SE) phantom scans were acquired with a Philips 1.5T Gyroscan. Distortion was measured as a function of: readout gradient strength (0.72<= G_r <=1.7mT/m), TR/TE/flip angle, shim settings, and temporal distortion change for 11 weekly scans for the FFE sequence and TR/TE/slice gap for SE. Precision measurements for linear distortion were: scale <=0.03%, shear <=0.04 degrees. Linear distortion in the readout dependent directions increased with decreased readout strength (r>0.93). There was a significantly higher (p<0.01) sagittal shear for 5 SE scans compared with 5 FFE ones with the same G_r - possibly because of slice selection. Different shim settings produced only linear distortion change: up to 2% scale and 1 degree shear. There was negligible distortion change over time: scale < 0.1%, shear <= 0.05 degrees. There was a decrease in distortion as a function of polynomial order (r>0.9, n=33), 75% of the distortion was either first or second order.

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Mark Holden, Marcel M. Breeuwer, Kate McLeish, David John Hawkes, Stephen F. Keevil, and Derek L.G. Hill "Sources and correction of higher-order geometrical distortion for serial MR brain imaging", Proc. SPIE 4322, Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing, (3 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.431151

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