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Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI.

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Willey, D; Darnell, D; Song, AW; Truong, T-K
Published in: Magn Reson Med
December 2021

PURPOSE: Gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (EPI), which is typically used for blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI), suffers from distortions and signal loss caused by localized B0 inhomogeneities. Such artifacts cannot be effectively corrected for with the low-order spherical harmonic (SH) shim coils available on most scanners. The integrated parallel reception, excitation, and shimming (iPRES) coil technology allows radiofrequency (RF) and direct currents to flow on each coil element, enabling imaging and localized B0 shimming with one coil array. iPRES was previously used to correct for distortions in spin-echo EPI and is further developed here to also recover signal loss in gradient-echo EPI. METHODS: The cost function in the shim optimization, which typically uses a single term representing the B0 inhomogeneity, was modified to include a second term representing the signal loss, with an adjustable weight to optimize the trade-off between distortion correction and signal recovery. Simulations and experiments were performed to investigate the shimming performance. RESULTS: Slice-optimized shimming with iPRES and the proposed cost function substantially reduced the signal loss in the inferior frontal and temporal brain regions compared to shimming with iPRES and the original cost function or 2nd -order SH shimming with either cost function. In breath-holding fMRI experiments, the ΔB0 and signal loss root-mean-square errors decreased by -34.3% and -56.2%, whereas the EPI signal intensity and number of activated voxels increased by 60.3% and 174.0% in the inferior frontal brain region. CONCLUSION: iPRES can recover signal loss in gradient-echo EPI, which is expected to improve BOLD fMRI studies in brain regions suffering from signal loss.

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Magn Reson Med

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EISSN

1522-2594

Publication Date

December 2021

Volume

86

Issue

6

Start / End Page

3067 / 3081

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Technology
  • Radio Waves
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Echo-Planar Imaging
  • Brain
  • 4003 Biomedical engineering
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering
 

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Willey, D., Darnell, D., Song, A. W., & Truong, T.-K. (2021). Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI. Magn Reson Med, 86(6), 3067–3081. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28925
Willey, Devin, Dean Darnell, Allen W. Song, and Trong-Kha Truong. “Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI.Magn Reson Med 86, no. 6 (December 2021): 3067–81. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28925.
Willey D, Darnell D, Song AW, Truong T-K. Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Dec;86(6):3067–81.
Willey, Devin, et al. “Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI.Magn Reson Med, vol. 86, no. 6, Dec. 2021, pp. 3067–81. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/mrm.28925.
Willey D, Darnell D, Song AW, Truong T-K. Application of an integrated radio-frequency/shim coil technology for signal recovery in fMRI. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Dec;86(6):3067–3081.
Journal cover image

Published In

Magn Reson Med

DOI

EISSN

1522-2594

Publication Date

December 2021

Volume

86

Issue

6

Start / End Page

3067 / 3081

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Technology
  • Radio Waves
  • Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Echo-Planar Imaging
  • Brain
  • 4003 Biomedical engineering
  • 0903 Biomedical Engineering