Prospective real-time correction for arbitrary head motion using active markers Export

@article{citeulike:6028595, abstract = {Patient motion during an MRI exam can result in major degradation of image quality, and is of increasing concern due to the aging population and its associated diseases. This work presents a general strategy for real-time, intraimage compensation of rigid-body motion that is compatible with multiple imaging sequences. Image quality improvements are established for structural brain MRI acquired during volunteer motion. A headband integrated with three active markers is secured to the forehead. Prospective correction is achieved by interleaving a rapid track-and-update module into the imaging sequence. For every repetition of this module, a short tracking pulse-sequence remeasures the marker positions; during head motion, the rigid-body transformation that realigns the markers to their initial positions is fed back to adaptively update the image-plane - maintaining it at a fixed orientation relative to the head - before the next imaging segment of k-space is acquired. In cases of extreme motion, corrupted lines of k-space are rejected and reacquired with the updated geometry. High-precision tracking measurements (0.01 mm) and corrections are accomplished in a temporal resolution (37 ms) suitable for real-time application. The correction package requires minimal additional hardware and is fully integrated into the standard user interface, promoting transferability to clinical practice. Magn Reson Med, 2009. {\copyright} 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.}, address = {Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, Ohio, USA}, author = {Ooi, Melvyn B. and Krueger, Sascha and Thomas, William J. and Swaminathan, Srirama V. and Brown, Truman R.}, citeulike-article-id = {6028595}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22082}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/122420581/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/mrm.22082}, issn = {1522-2594}, journal = {Magnetic Resonance in Medicine}, keywords = {monitoring, motion-correction, rigid\_body\_motion}, number = {4}, pages = {943--954}, posted-at = {2009-10-28 20:22:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Prospective real-time correction for arbitrary head motion using active markers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22082}, volume = {62}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6028595 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6028595 N2 - Patient motion during an MRI exam can result in major degradation of image quality, and is of increasing concern due to the aging population and its associated diseases. This work presents a general strategy for real-time, intraimage compensation of rigid-body motion that is compatible with multiple imaging sequences. Image quality improvements are established for structural brain MRI acquired during volunteer motion. A headband integrated with three active markers is secured to the forehead. Prospective correction is achieved by interleaving a rapid track-and-update module into the imaging sequence. For every repetition of this module, a short tracking pulse-sequence remeasures the marker positions; during head motion, the rigid-body transformation that realigns the markers to their initial positions is fed back to adaptively update the image-plane - maintaining it at a fixed orientation relative to the head - before the next imaging segment of k-space is acquired. In cases of extreme motion, corrupted lines of k-space are rejected and reacquired with the updated geometry. High-precision tracking measurements (0.01 mm) and corrections are accomplished in a temporal resolution (37 ms) suitable for real-time application. The correction package requires minimal additional hardware and is fully integrated into the standard user interface, promoting transferability to clinical practice. Magn Reson Med, 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. IS - 4 JF - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine SN - 1522-2594 AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Philips Healthcare, Cleveland, Ohio, USA EP - 954 TI - Prospective real-time correction for arbitrary head motion using active markers VL - 62 SP - 943 KW - monitoring KW - motion-correction KW - rigid_body_motion AU - Ooi, Melvyn AU - Krueger, Sascha AU - Thomas, William AU - Swaminathan, Srirama AU - Brown, Truman PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22082 ER -