Motion‐compensated gradient waveforms for tensor‐valued diffusion encoding by constrained numerical optimization

Diffusion‐weighted MRI is sensitive to incoherent tissue motion, which may confound the measured signal and subsequent analysis. We propose a “motion‐compensated” gradient waveform design for tensor‐valued diffusion encoding that negates the effects bulk motion and incoherent motion in the ballistic regime.

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