title: Adaptive retrospective correction of motion artifacts in cranial MRI with multicoil three-dimensional radial acquisitions.
abstract: Despite reduction in imaging times through improved hardware and rapid acquisition schemes, motion artifacts can compromise image quality in magnetic resonance imaging, especially in three-dimensional imaging with its prolonged scan durations. Direct extension of most state-of-the-art two-dimensional rigid body motion compensation techniques to the three-dimensional case is often challenging or impractical due to a significant increase in sampling requirements. This article introduces a novel motion correction technique that is capable of restoring image quality in motion corrupted two-dimensional and three-dimensional radial acquisitions without a priori assumptions about when motion occurs. The navigating properties of radial acquisitions-corroborated by multiple receiver coils-are exploited to detect actual instances of motion. Pseudorandom projection ordering provides flexibility of reconstructing navigator images from the obtained motion-free variable-width subsets for subsequent estimation of rigid body motion parameters by coregistration. The proposed approach does not require any additional navigators or external motion estimation schemes. The capabilities and limitations of the method are described and demonstrated through simulations and representative volunteer cranial acquisitions.
authors: Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA. samsonov@wisc.edu
authors: Ashley G
authors: AG
authors: Anderson
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Velikina
authors: Walter
authors: W
authors: Block
authors: Oliver
authors: O
authors: Wieben
authors: Alexey
authors: A
authors: Samsonov
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009038:Motion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity