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MRI ARTIFACTS
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Introduction There are numerous kinds of artifacts
that can occur in MRI.
Some effect the quality of the MRI exam.
Others may be confused with pathology.
Some artifacts can be mitigated by the MR Tech while others require an engineer.
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Sources of Artifacts Hardware Issues e.g. calibration, power
stability Software problems e.g. programming errors Physiological phenomena e.g. blood flow Physics limitations e.g. Gibbs and
susceptibility
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Types of Artifacts Chemical Shift Artifact Aliasing Black Boundary Artifact Gibbs or Truncation Artifact Zipper Artifact Motion Artifacts (Phase direction) Entry Slice Phenomenon Field inhomogeneity Slice-overlap Artifact
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Types of Artifacts (continued)
Magic Angle Effects Moire Fringes RF Overflow Artifact Central Point Artifact Quadrature Ghost Susceptibility Artifact Zero-fill (Zebra Artifact) Eddy Current Artifacts Diastolic Pseudogating Gadolinium Pseudolayering
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Chemical Shift Artifact Frequency-encoding direction The different resonant frequency of fat &
water is transformed into spatial difference.
Common in vertebral bodies, orbits, solid organs surrounded by fat.
Worst at higher field strength, less with stronger gradients.
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Chemical Shift Artifact
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Aliasing or "Wrap-around "
Occurs when the field of view (FOV) is smaller than the body part being imaged causing the region beyond to project on the other side of the image.
Caused by undersampling in the phase or (rarely) frequency direction.
May occur in end slices of a 3D acquisition.
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Aliasing or "Wrap-around "
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Aliasing
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Aliasing or "Wrap-around "
Correction: Increase the FOV (decreases resolution). Oversampling the data in the frequency direction
(standard) and increasing phase steps in the phase-encoded direction – phase compensation (time or SNR penalty).
Swapping phase and frequency direction so phase is in the narrower direction.
Use surface coil so no signal detected outside of FOV.
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Black Line Artifact An artificially created black line located at fat-
water interfaces such as muscle-fat interfaces.
Occurs at TE when the fat and water spins located in the same pixel are out of phase, cancelling each other’s signal. Particularly noticeable on GE sequences. Both freq and phase direction.
At 1.5 Tesla, occurs at 4.5 ms multiples, starting at about 2.3 ms.
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Black Line Artifact
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Black Line Artifact Mitigation: Use in-phase TE’s Fat suppression Increase bandwidth or matrix size.
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Gibbs or Truncation Artifact Bright or dark lines that are seen parallel &
next to borders of abrupt intensity change. May simulate a syrinx on sagittal image of spinal cord.
Related to the finite number of encoding steps used by the Fourier transform.
Mitigation: More encoding steps lessen the intensity and narrows the artifact.
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Gibbs or Truncation Artifact
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Zipper Artifacts Most are related to hardware or software
problems beyond the radiologist control. May occur in either frequency or phase direction.
Zipper artifacts from RF entering room are oriented perpendicular to the frequency direction.
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Zipper Artifacts
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Motion Artifacts Bright noise or repeating densities
usually oriented in the phase direction.
Extend across the entire FOV, unlike truncation artifacts that diminish quickly away from the boundary causing them.
Examples: Arterial pulsations, CSF pulsations, swallowing, breathing, peristalsis, and physical movement.
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Motion Artifacts Mitigation:
Arterial and CSF pulsation artifacts can be reduced with flow compensation and cardiac gaiting.
Spatial presaturation can reduce some swallowing and breathing artifacts and arterial pulsations.
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Motion Artifacts Mitigation (cont.): Surface coil localization can reduce
artifacts generated at a distance from the area of interest.
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Motion Artifacts
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Slice-overlap (cross-slice) Artifacts Loss of signal seen in an image from a
multi-angle, multi-slice acquisition.
Same mechanism as spatial presaturation for reduction of motion and flow artifacts.
Example: Two groups of non-parallel slices in the same sequence, e.g., L4-5 and L5-S1. The level acquired second will include spins that have already been saturated.
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Slice-overlap (cross-slice) Artifacts
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Slice-overlap Artifacts
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Slice-overlap Artifacts Correction: Avoid steep change in angle between
slice groups. Use separate acquisitions. Use small flip angle, i.e. GE sequence
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Cross-talk Artifact Result of imperfect slice excitation, i.e.
non-rectangular, of adjacent slices causing reduction in signal over entire image.
May be reduced by using gap, interleaving slices and optimized (but longer) rf pulses.
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Cross-talk Artifact
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Magic Angle Effects
Seen most frequently in tendons and ligaments that are oriented at a 55o angle to the main magnetic field.
Normal dipolar interactions between the H+’s in water molecule aligned in tendons shortens T2, causing loss of signal.
The dipolar interactions go to zero at about 55o increasing the signal.
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Magic Angle Effects
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Entry slice (Inflow) artifact Unsaturated spins in blood or CSF
entering the initial slices results in greater signal than reduces on subsequent slices.
May be confused with thrombus. Can use spatial saturation to reduce. Mechanism for TOF angiography.
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Entry slice (Inflow) artifact
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Field inhomogeneity Types: Main magnetic field RF coil inhomogeneity Dielectric effects – worst at 3T+
May cause variation in intensity across image
May cause non-uniform fat suppression
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Field inhomogeneity – Bo
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Field inhomogeneity- RF coil
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Field inhomogeneity- Dielectric
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Field inhomogeneity Mitigation: Shimming, area of interest in near
isocenter Use STIR for Fat sat vs. Chess. Caution
with Gad. Coil – Use volume vs. surface coil, allow
space between coil and body. Dielectric – use phased array coils,
software compensation
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RF Overflow Artifacts (Clipping) Causes a nonuniform, washed-out
appearance to an image.
Occurs when the signal received from the amplifier exceeds the dynamic range the analog-to-digital converter causing clipping.
Autoprescanning usually adjusts the receiver gain to prevent this from occurring.
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RF Overflow Artifacts
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Moire Fringes Moire fringes are an interference pattern most
commonly seen when doing gradient echo images.
One cause is aliasing of one side of the body to the other results in superimposition of signals of different phases that add and cancel. Can also be caused by receiver picking up a stimulated echo.
Similar to the effect of looking though two window screens.
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Moire Fringes
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Central Point Artifact A focal dot of increased or decreased
signal in the center of an image.
Caused by a constant offset of the DC voltage in the amplifiers.
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Central Point Artifact
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Central Point Artifact Correction: Requires recalibration by engineer Maintain a constant temperature in
equipment room for amplifiers.
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Quadrature ghost artifact Another amplifier artifact caused by
unbalanced gain in the two channels of a quadrature coil. Combining two signals of different intensity causes some frequencies to become less than zero causing 180 degree “ghost.”
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Quadrature ghost artifact
Image courtesy of http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/
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Susceptibility Artifacts Variations in the magnetic field strength
that occurs near the interfaces of substance of different magnetic susceptibility such as ferromagnetic foreign bodies.
Causes dephasing of spins and frequency shifts of the surrounding tissue.
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Susceptibility Artifacts Worst with long echo times and with
gradient echo sequences. Worst at higher magnetic field strength.
Less with fast/turbo spin echo sequences.
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Susceptibility Artifacts
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Susceptibility Artifact 2
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Zebra Artifacts Band-like, usually oblique stripes. Data in the K-space array will be
missing or will be set to zero by the scanner or an electrical spike may occur as from static.
The abrupt change from signal to no signal or normal signal to high signal results in artifacts in the images.
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Zebra Artifacts
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Eddy Current Artifacts Varying magnetic field from gradients
can induce electrical currents in conductors such as the cryostat causing distortion of the gradient waveforms.
Particularly a problem with echo-planar imaging that uses strong, rapidly changing gradients.
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Eddy Current Artifacts
Image courtesy of http://www.mr-tip.com/
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Eddy Current Artifacts Mitigation: Precompensation- A “distorted” gradient
waveform is used which corrects to normal with the eddy current effects.
Shielded gradients – Active shielding coils between gradient coils and main gradients.
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Diastolic Pseudogating Change in intensity of blood in large vessel
such as the aorta from slice to slice when there is synchronization of the cardiac cycle and the pulse sequence, i.e., repetition rate = heart rate (TR=1/HR)
Synchronization of the cardiac cycle and the pulse sequence results in high signal in the artery during diastole when blood is relatively stationary and loss of signal during systole when flow is high.
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Diastolic Pseudogating
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Gadolinium “Pseudolayering” Three density layers in the bladder after
Gd Low conc. Gd top layer = dark Med conc. Gd middle layer = bright High conc. Gd lower layer near ureters =
dark T2 shortening overshadows normal T1
effects at high concentrations.
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Gadolinium “Pseudolayering”
Left image from A. Elster’s book
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MRI Project Submit an MRI protocols on March 14-16
on the following examination:NeuroscanningSpine scanningBody scanningNeck scanningPediatric scanningContrast examinations
Short bond paper
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Protocols Give 2 protocols per examination It should include:
Patient preparationIndicationSequence/RoutineRelated Imagery Coil usedContrast media
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Sample
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Sequence/Routine
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Related Imagery
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Related Imagery
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