Abstract #2657

Harmonic Phase Subtraction Methods Are Prone to B1 Background Components

Ferdinand Schweser^1,2, Marie Atterbury^1,3, Andreas Deistung¹, Berengar Wendel Lehr¹, Karsten Sommer^1,4, Jrgen R. Reichenbach¹

¹Medical Physics Group, Dept. of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology 1, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany; ²School of Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany; ³Dept. of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, Germany; ⁴School of Physics & Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany

In this contribution we investigate the effect of the B1 radio frequency (RF) signal induced phase offset on the results of two recently presented preprocessing methods for GRE phase data, namely SHARP and PDF. Furthermore, it is shown that these methods are mathematically equivalent.