Zhe Zhang1, Xiaodong Ma1, Erpeng Dai1, Hui Zhang1, and Hua Guo1
Multi-shot EPI can
achieve high resolution diffusion imaging, but the ghost artifacts caused by
shot-to-shot phase variations must be corrected. In recent works, k-space phase
correction methods have been proposed, which require navigator acquisitions for
each excitation for calibrating the k-space interpolation parameters. In this
work, a self-calibrated method for multi-shot DWI correction in k-space is
proposed, which does not require navigator acquisitions for efficient scanning
and does not suffer from the potential mismatch between image and navigator
echoes. Experiments on liver DWI demonstrate that the proposed method can correct the
motion induced artifacts in diffusion imaging.