Noise Considerations in Slice Encoding for Metal Artifact Correction

Fig. 2: Illustration of the correction of throughplane distortions. The SEMAC sequence excites multiple slices with no gap in between and resolves the arbitrary distorted excitation slice profiles with the additional z-phase encoding. The correction is done by combining the signals resolved from different slices at each voxel, but many of which only contain background noise. Noise Considerations in Slice Encoding for Metal Artifact Correction