Method for correcting echo wave plane imaging sequence

Abstract

The invention provides a way for correcting the imaging sequence of an echo plane. A plurality of echo signals are collected, the phase difference of the echo signals is calculated to correct the image data. Wherein, the phase difference goes through multi-order fitting, a fitting coefficient reflecting the cross-infection volume and frequency drift is worked out to carry out phase correction forthe image data. The invention collects the EPI signals of two echoes to form two images, the info on time difference for collecting the two images is used to calculate the phase diagram reflecting the unevenness in the magnetic field, and the phase diagram is used to carry out deformation correction for the image. The invention takes full consideration of the influence from the uneven field during the calculation, basically corrects the displacement of the image, improves the accuracy for deformation correction in subsequent images without using additional sequence to get phase diagram, and saves scanning time.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging sequence, in particular to a correction method for an echo planar imaging (Echo Planar Imaging, EPI) sequence. Background technique [0002] The EPI sequence is a fast MRI sequence that requires only a single excitation pulse to obtain a complete image. The magnetic field gradient is periodically shifted, producing a series of gradient echoes; images of the excited plane are obtained by Fourier transforming the resulting echo series. [0003] In traditional EPI imaging, the phase encoding gradient and frequency encoding gradient of the sequence are as follows: figure 1 As shown in the labels 3 and 5, due to the imperfection of the hardware system, such as eddy current, data acquisition delay, magnetic field drift and other reasons, the data read out under positive and negative frequency encoding gradients are not completely consistent, such as echo center Inconsistency, the interval of each line o...

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Problems solved by technology

[0007] The unilateral readout gradient method only collects data at one polarity readout gradient. This method can completely avoid the N / 2 artifact problem, but it cannot correct the image deformation and waste scanning time

Moreover, due to the longer echo interval time, the displacement of the image in the phase encoding direction, and the image deformation caused by the uneven magnetic field is more serious

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