Towards combining prospective motion correction and distortion correction for EPI
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Introduction: In most fMRI studies, subject motion is assumed to be restricted to such a small amount that susceptibility-induced distortions can be treated as stationary and independent from motion. However, the ultimate goal of this project is to enable fMRI studies during significant head motion by applying prospective motion correction techniques [1]. In this regime, the motion dependence of susceptibility-induced distortions can no longer be neglected. The aim of this work is the correction of time-variant distortions in prospectively motion corrected echo planar images.
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