title: Understanding acceleration-induced displacement artifacts in phase-contrast MR velocity measurements.
abstract: A theoretical framework for understanding acceleration-induced errors in phase-contrast magnetic resonance velocity measurements has been developed. An important result of this framework is the interpretation of acceleration-induced velocity errors as displacement artifacts due to the delay between velocity and spatial encoding. A rotating-disk phantom was used to confirm the theoretically predicted displacement times (the difference between theory and experiment was 8.2%). Errors were also observed in velocity profiles measured in regions of fluid acceleration downstream from a step stenosis. The magnitude of these errors could be predicted and corrected by using the analytic framework.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Frayne
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Rutt
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008961:Models, Structural