title: Method of generalized projections algorithm for image-based reduction of artifacts in radial imaging.
abstract: This work describes the method of generalized projections (MGP) as an image-based, postprocessing method to correct for phase inconsistencies caused by echo misalignments in radial imaging. Computer simulations show that MGP can correct for echo shifts, constant phase, and amplitude errors, but the accuracy of the correction is limited, and this accuracy is reduced by the addition of more degrees of freedom. In phantom experiments, MGP performed better than magnitude filtered backprojection and anti-parallel projections correction.
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Radiology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. k.j.lee@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: M N J
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Paley
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wild
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity