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Abstract #3459

EPI Distortion Correction by Constrained Nonlinear Coregistration Improves Group FMRI

Eelke Visser1,2, Shaozheng Qin1,3, Marcel P. Zwiers1,2

1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 2Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 3Department of Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands


Susceptibility gradient induced distortions are a well-known problem of EPI. We show that group fMRI results can be improved using a variation on an existing method for estimating the displacements using the mutual information between the EPI images and a reference T1 image.