Measuring extracranial magnetic field changes due to head motion during multi-slice EPI acquisition
Laura Bortolotti1 and Richard Bowtell1
1Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Head motion parameters were successfully predicted from measurements of extra-cranial field changes made during an EPI
scan.
Experimental set-up. The NMR field probes were placed between the transmit and the receiver Rf coils. The optical camera (MPT, Kineticor) is fixed to the inside of the magnet bore. The positions of the probes are shown in (b).
The plots show examples of simultaneous measurements of head motion parameters (top row) and magnetic field (bottom row). The subject performed various head movements (rest, head shaking, head nodding, feet wiggling). Measurements were acquired with and without simultaneous EPI scanning.