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@ARTICLE{Liu:203230,
author = {Liu, Chao and Chang, Baolin and Qiu, Longqing and Dong, Hui
and Qiu, Yang and Zhang, Yi and Krause, Hans-Joachim and
Offenhäusser, Andreas and Xie, Xiaoming},
title = {{E}ffect of magnetic field fluctuation on ultra-low field
{MRI} measurements in the unshielded laboratory environment},
journal = {Journal of magnetic resonance},
volume = {257},
issn = {1090-7807},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-05216},
pages = {8 - 14},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Magnetic field fluctuations in our unshielded urban
laboratory can reach hundreds of nT in the noisy daytime and
is only a few nT in the quiet midnight. The field
fluctuation causes the Larmor frequency fL to drift randomly
for several Hz during the unshielded ultra-low field (ULF)
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) measurements, thus seriously spoiling the
averaging effect and causing imaging artifacts. By using an
active compensation (AC) technique based on the spatial
correlation of the low-frequency magnetic field fluctuation,
the field fluctuation can be suppressed to tens of nT, which
is a moderate situation between the noisy daytime and the
quiet midnight. In this paper, the effect of the field
fluctuation on ULF MRI measurements was investigated. The 1D
and 2D MRI signals of a water phantom were measured using a
second-order low-Tc superconducting quantum interference
device (SQUID) in three fluctuation cases: severe
fluctuation (noisy daytime), moderate fluctuation (daytime
with AC) and minute fluctuation (quiet midnight) when
different gradient fields were applied. When the active
compensation is applied or when the frequency encoding
gradient field Gx reaches a sufficiently strong value in our
measurements, the image artifacts become invisible in all
three fluctuation cases. Therefore it is feasible to perform
ULF-MRI measurements in unshielded urban environment without
imaging artifacts originating from magnetic fluctuations by
using the active compensation technique and/or strong
gradient fields.},
cin = {PGI-8 / ICS-8 / JARA-FIT},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-8-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-8-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {552 - Engineering Cell Function (POF3-552) / 553 - Physical
Basis of Diseases (POF3-553)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-552 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-553},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000358339700002},
doi = {10.1016/j.jmr.2015.04.014},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/203230},
}