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The Pitfalls of EPI: Distortion
T1w + contrast
DW-EPI b800
Tim Schakel & Astrid van Lier
• Geometric
displacements along EPI
phase encode direction
• Caused by field
inhomogeneities
(susceptibility artefacts)
• Can be partly corrected
as a post processing
step
fieldmap
fieldmap