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Elimination of eddy current artifacts in diffusion-weighted echo-planar images: The use of bipolar gradients

✍ Scribed by Andrew L. Alexander; Jay S. Tsuruda; Dennis L. Parker

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
683 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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Abstract

Small gradient fields resulting from incompletely canceled eddy currents can cause geometric distortion in echo‐planar images. Although this distortion is negligible in most echo‐planar applications, the large gradient pulses used in diffusion‐weighted echo‐planar imaging can result in significant image distortion. In this report, it is shown that this distortion can be significantly reduced by the application of bipolar gradient waveforms. Both bipolar diffusion‐sensitizing gradients and an inverted gradient preparatory pulse were examined for minimizing the eddy currents responsible for these distortions.

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