Yan Wen1,
2, Tian Liu1, 3, Yi Wang1, 3
1Department
of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States; 2Department
of Physics and Astronomy , SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook , NY, United
States; 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, United States
A background removal procedure removes background fields to isolate local fields, which is essential for susceptibility calculation. A previous method based on spherical mean value (SMV) principle, Sophisticated Harmonic Artifact Reduction on Phase Data (SHARP), has shown promising results but its result depends on the radius of the sphere and requires a subjective selection of truncation threshold for the deconvolution procedure. Here, we present an infinite SMV algorithm to reduce the dependence of radius and eliminates the need of deconvolution.