Predicting dynamic, motion-related changes in B0 field in the brain at a 7 T MRI using a subject-specific fine-tuned U-net Article Swipe

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Stanislav Motyka , Paul Weiser , Beata Bachrátá , Lukas Hingerl , Bernhard Strasser , Gilbert Hangel , Eva Niess , Dario Goranovic , Fabian Niess , Maxim Zaitsev , Simon Robinson , Georg Langs , Siegfried Trattnig , Wolfgang Bogner · YOU? · · 2023 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.08307

Subject movement during the magnetic resonance examination is inevitable and causes not only image artefacts but also deteriorates the homogeneity of the main magnetic field (B0), which is a prerequisite for high quality data. Thus, characterization of changes to B0, e.g. induced by patient movement, is important for MR applications that are prone to B0 inhomogeneities. We propose a deep learning based method to predict such changes within the brain from the change of the head position to facilitate retrospective or even real-time correction. A 3D U-net was trained on in vivo brain 7T MRI data. The input consisted of B0 maps and anatomical images at an initial position, and anatomical images at a different head position (obtained by applying a rigid-body transformation on the initial anatomical image). The output consisted of B0 maps at the new head positions. We further fine-tuned the network weights to each subject by measuring a limited number of head positions of the given subject, and trained the U-net with these data. Our approach was compared to established dynamic B0 field mapping via interleaved navigators, which suffer from limited spatial resolution and the need for undesirable sequence modifications. Qualitative and quantitative comparison showed similar performance between an interleaved navigator-equivalent method and proposed method. We therefore conclude that it is feasible to predict B0 maps from rigid subject movement and, when combined with external tracking hardware, this information could be used to improve the quality of magnetic resonance acquisitions without the use of navigators.

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Predicting dynamic, motion-related changes in B0 field in the brain at a 7 T MRI using a subject-specific fine-tuned U-net

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Stanislav Motyka, Paul Weiser, Beata Bachrátá, Lukas Hingerl, Bernhard Strasser, Gilbert Hangel, Eva Niess, Dario Goranovic, Fabian Niess, Maxim Zaitsev, Simon Robinson, Georg Langs, Siegfried Trattnig, Wolfgang Bogner

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Computer science, Homogeneity (statistics), Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, Magnetic resonance imaging, Position (finance), Head (geology), Tracking (education), Movement (music), Image quality, Real-time MRI, Image (mathematics), Acoustics, Machine learning, Physics, Psychology, Radiology, Medicine, Geology, Pedagogy, Finance, Geomorphology, Economics

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