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Table 5 Number of documented artifacts in CT and the individual MRI sequences

From: Free-breathing 3D Stack of Stars GRE (StarVIBE) sequence for detecting pulmonary nodules in 18F-FDG PET/MRI

 

CT

HASTE

VIBE

StarVIBE

Respiratory/cardiac motion

2

12

23

 

Aliasing

 

2

7

 

Ghosting

  

3

 

Streak artifacts

   

14

  1. The VIBE sequence in particular proved to be susceptible to breathing and heart motion artifacts, while the StarVIBE was only influenced by streak artifacts, which had only a minor impact on the image quality. CT was only hardly influenced by artifacts
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