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Motion Robust Parallel Transmission Excitation Pulse Design for Ultra-High Field MRI
Luke Watkins1, Alix Plumley2, Kevin Murphy1, and Emre Kopanoglu2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, CUBRIC, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2Department of Psychology, CUBRIC, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
The motion-robust pulse yielded superior performance in 97% of all magnitude and phase error metrics for 46 other off-centre positions (similar performance in remaining 3%). Similar magnitude nRMSE to the reference pulse was maintained at the centre.
Figure 2. Magnitude and Phase profiles for a -5° roll rotation about the centre of the head. Magnitude nRMSE was reduced from 14% (reference pulse) to 5.4% (MRP). Maximum magnitude error was reduced from 64% to 20%. Phase RMSE was reduced from 17° to 3.6°, and maximum phase error from 68° to 15°. The MRP was successful at areas of high motion-induced error in magnitude and phase.
Figure 5. (a) Magnitude nRMSE, (b) phase RMSE, (c) maximum magnitude error, (d) maximum phase error of the MRP vs the reference pulse. The green shaded area represents where the MRP outperformed the reference pulse. Cases where MRP performs worse than the reference still report very similar errors.