Assessing MRI susceptibility artefact through an indicator of image distortion

Susceptibility artefacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) caused by medical devices can result in a severe degradation of the MR image quality. The quantification of susceptibility artefacts is regulated by the ASTM standard which defines a manual method to assess the size of an artefact. This me...

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Published in:Current directions in biomedical engineering 2016-09, Vol.2 (1), p.427-431
Main Authors: Illanes, Alfredo, Krug, Johannes W., Friebe, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
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artefact assessment
MRI
susceptibility
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Summary:Susceptibility artefacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) caused by medical devices can result in a severe degradation of the MR image quality. The quantification of susceptibility artefacts is regulated by the ASTM standard which defines a manual method to assess the size of an artefact. This means that the estimated artefact size can be user dependent. To cope with this problem, we propose an algorithm to automatically quantify the size of such susceptibility artefacts. The algorithm is based on the analysis of a 3D surface generated from the 2D MR images. The results obtained by the automatic algorithm were compared to the manual measurements performed by study participants. The results show that the automatic and manual measurements follow the same trend. The clear advantage of the automated algorithm is the absence of the inter- and intra-observer variability. In addition, the algorithm also detects the slice containing the largest artefact which was not the case for the manual measurements.
ISSN:2364-5504
2364-5504
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2016-0095