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Abstract #3090

Pre-Processing Phase: A Quantitative Analysis of Established Methods in SWI

Ferdinand Schweser1, Alexia Rodrguez-Ruano2,3, Andreas Deistung3, Berengar Wendel Lehr3, Manuel Desco2, Jrgen Rainer Reichenbach3

1Medical Physics Group, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology , Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany; 2Medicina y Ciruga Experimental, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maran, Madrid, Spain; 3Medical Physics Group, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany


Well-established methods for estimation of background field contributions were quantitatively analyzed based on a realistic numerical whole-body model. The results indicate that interpretability of phase data strongly depends on chosen filter-type, filter-parameter, and region of interest.