Projects:EPIDistortionCorrection

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Description

We have developed a variational image-based approach to correct the susceptibility artifacts in the alignment of diffusion weighted and structural MRI.The correction is formulated as an optimization of a penalty that captures the intensity difference between the jacobian corrected EPI baseline images and a corresponding T2-weighted structural image.

Coronal slice from a fieldmap corrected EPI (left). The same slice using proposed correction method (right).

Key Investigators

• Utah: Ran Tao, Tom Fletcher, Samuel Gerber, Ross Whitaker

Publications

In Press

R Tao, P T Fletcher, S Gerber, R Whitaker, A Variational Image-Based Approach to the Correction of Susceptibility Artifacts in the Alignment of Diffusion Weighted and Structural MRI, IPMI 2009