Real-time prospective motion correction of arbitrary MR pulse sequences with XPACE-Pulseq
Maxim Zaitsev1, Michael Woletz1, and Martin Tik1
1High Field MR Center, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Prospective
motion correction using external tracking is feasible for arbitrary pulse
sequences stored in Pulseq format.
Figure 1. An example of a gradient echo sequence timing diagram. Red
dotted lines mark possible block boundaries. RF pulses and ADC events are not
allowed to cross block boundaries; however, gradients are not forced to 0 at
the boundaries (see blue circles), allowing for efficient gradient wave forms as needed for the
fast sequences. Block arrows on the top mark possible position update points;
filled ones correspond to the currently implemented option.
Figure 2. In
vivo images acquired with a 3D gradient echo sequence programmed in Pulseq in presence of head rotations: (left) without prospective motion correction and (right) with prospective motion correction. See Fig. 3 for corresponding motion traces.