title: Rigid-body motion correction with self-navigation MRI.
abstract: The use of phase correlation to detect rigid-body translational motion is reviewed and applied to individual echotrains in turbo-spin-echo data acquisition. It is shown that when the same echotrain is acquired twice, the subsampled correlation provides an array of delta-functions, from which the motion that occurred between the acquisitions of the two echotrains can be measured. It is shown further that a similar correlation can be found between two sets of equally spaced measurements that are adjacent in k-space. By measuring the motion between all adjacent pairs of k-space subgroups, the complete motion history of a subject can be determined and the motion artifacts in the image can be corrected. Some of the limiting factors in using this technique are investigated with turbo-spin-echo head and hand images.
authors.affiliation: Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kholmovski
authors.forename: Dennis L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Parker
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009038:Motion; D009068:Movement; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity