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- Title
Reducing susceptibility artifacts in fMRI using volume-selective z-shim compensation.
- Authors
Du, Yiping P.; Dalwani, Manish; Wylie, Korey; Claus, Eric; Tregellas, Jason R.
- Abstract
Susceptibility-induced magnetic field gradients (SFGs) can result in severe signal loss in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in gradient-echo-based functional MRI (fMRI) studies. Although conventional z-shim techniques can effectively recover the MRI signal in this region, the substantial penalty in imaging time hampers their use in routine fMRI studies. A modified z-shim technique with high imaging efficiency is presented in this study. In this technique, z-shim compensations are applied only to a selective volume where the susceptibility artifact is severe. The results of an fMRI study ( N = 6) demonstrate the feasibility of detecting the OFC activation with z-shim in whole-brain fMRI studies at a temporal resolution of 2 s. Magn Reson Med 57:396-404, 2007. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
- Publication
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007, Vol 57, Issue 2, p396
- ISSN
0740-3194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mrm.21150