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PURPOSE: To estimate dynamic off-resonance due to vigorous body motion in accelerated fMRI of awake behaving nonhuman primates (NHPs) using the echo-planar imaging reference navigator, in order to attenuate the effects of time-varying off-resonance on the reconstruction. METHODS: In NHP fMRI, the animal's head is usually head-posted, and the dynamic off-resonance is mainly caused by motion in body parts that are distant from the brain and have low spatial frequency. Hence, off-resonance at each frame can be approximated as a spatially linear perturbation of the off-resonance at a reference frame, and is manifested as a relative linear shift in k-space. Using GRAPPA operators, we estimated these shifts by comparing the navigator at each time frame with that at the reference frame. Estimated shifts were then used to correct the data at each frame. The proposed method was evaluated in phantom scans, simulations, and in vivo data. RESULTS: The proposed method is shown to successfully estimate spatially low-order dynamic off-resonance perturbations, including induced linear off-resonance perturbations in phantoms, and is able to correct retrospectively corrupted data in simulations. Finally, it is shown to reduce ghosting artifacts and geometric distortions by up to 20% in simultaneous multislice in vivo acquisitions in awake-behaving NHPs. CONCLUSION: A method is proposed that does not need sequence modification or extra acquisitions and makes accelerated awake behaving NHP imaging more robust and reliable, reducing the gap between what is possible with NHP protocols and state-of-the-art human imaging.

Original publication

DOI

10.1002/mrm.29167

Type

Journal article

Journal

Magn Reson Med

Publication Date

06/2022

Volume

87

Pages

2922 - 2932

Keywords

EPI, dynamic off-resonance, fMRI, nonhuman primates, simultaneous multislice, Algorithms, Animals, Artifacts, Brain, Echo-Planar Imaging, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phantoms, Imaging, Primates, Retrospective Studies, Wakefulness