MR-Compass: Inertial Navigation-Driven Motion Correction for Brain MRI
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| author | Arslan, Musa Tunc Calakli, Fatih Auger, Joshua Fan, Hongli Macy, Alan J Warfield, Simon K |
| author_facet | Arslan, Musa Tunc Calakli, Fatih Auger, Joshua Fan, Hongli Macy, Alan J Warfield, Simon K |
| contents | Inertial sensors can track object kinematics, however, unbounded drift from integrating noisy signals makes them impractical for MRI motion correction at millimeter resolution and minute-long scans. We introduce MR-Compass, which exploits the MRI system's static magnetic and gravitational fields to estimate 3-DOF orientation at 2 kHz directly, without integration, eliminating random-walk. The remaining 3-DOF translation is recovered via phase correlation from the MRI data. We experimentally validate the efficacy of the method retrospectively using a 3D radial koosh-ball sequence and prospectively using 2D EPI fMRI during large volunteer motions. MR-Compass followed by phase-correlation achieved a mean accuracy of 0.6$^o$ and 0.4 pixels across all experiments. Image quality improved when motion correction was applied in all volunteer scans for both retrospective and prospective correction cases. MR-Compass was effective in measuring head motion in the MRI scanner with high accuracy at unprecedented sample rates, and enabled both retrospective and prospective reconstruction to improve image quality by aligning the k-space data appropriately and by reducing the motion related artifacts. |
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| spellingShingle | MR-Compass: Inertial Navigation-Driven Motion Correction for Brain MRI Arslan, Musa Tunc Calakli, Fatih Auger, Joshua Fan, Hongli Macy, Alan J Warfield, Simon K Image and Video Processing Signal Processing Medical Physics Inertial sensors can track object kinematics, however, unbounded drift from integrating noisy signals makes them impractical for MRI motion correction at millimeter resolution and minute-long scans. We introduce MR-Compass, which exploits the MRI system's static magnetic and gravitational fields to estimate 3-DOF orientation at 2 kHz directly, without integration, eliminating random-walk. The remaining 3-DOF translation is recovered via phase correlation from the MRI data. We experimentally validate the efficacy of the method retrospectively using a 3D radial koosh-ball sequence and prospectively using 2D EPI fMRI during large volunteer motions. MR-Compass followed by phase-correlation achieved a mean accuracy of 0.6$^o$ and 0.4 pixels across all experiments. Image quality improved when motion correction was applied in all volunteer scans for both retrospective and prospective correction cases. MR-Compass was effective in measuring head motion in the MRI scanner with high accuracy at unprecedented sample rates, and enabled both retrospective and prospective reconstruction to improve image quality by aligning the k-space data appropriately and by reducing the motion related artifacts. |
| title | MR-Compass: Inertial Navigation-Driven Motion Correction for Brain MRI |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Signal Processing Medical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01584 |