Title
Spherical Navigator Echoes for Full 3-D Rigid Body Motion Measurement in MRI
Abstract
We developed a 3D spherical navigator (SNAV) echo technique that can measure rigid body motion in all six degrees of freedom simultaneously by sampling a spherical shell in k-space. 3D rotations of an imaged object simply rotate the data on this shell and can be detected by registration of k-space magnitude values. 3D translations add phase shifts to the data on the shell and can be detected with a weighted least-squares fit to the phase differences at corresponding points. MRI pulse sequences were developed to study k-space sampling strategies on such a shell. Data collected with a computer-controlled motion phantom with known rotational and translational motions were used to evaluate the technique. The accuracy and precision of the technique depend on the sampling density. Roughly 2000 sample points were necessary for accurate detection to within the error limits of the motion phantom when using a prototype time-intensive sampling method. This number of samples can be captured in an approximately 27-ms double excitation SNAV pulse sequence with a 3D helical spiral trajectory. Preliminary results with the helical SNAV are encouraging and indicate that accurate motion measurement suitable for retrospective or prospective correction should be feasible with SNAV echoes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1007/3-540-45468-3_176
Medical Imaging: Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
spherical navigator echoes,3-d rigid body motion,3-d spherical navigator,echo technique,double snav echo acquisition,3-d rotation,motion detection,spherical navigator echo,rigid body motion,accurate detection,3-d helical spiral trajectory,spherical shell,rigid body,degree of freedom
Computer vision,Spiral,Rotation,Motion detection,Computer science,Imaging phantom,Six degrees of freedom,Rigid body,Artificial intelligence,Spherical shell,Trajectory
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
1
0740-3194
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-42697-3
21
9.70
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
E. Brian Welch14516.66
Armando Manduca230360.99
Roger C. Grimm32210.11
H A Ward42210.07
Clifford R. Jack, Jr.5219.70