Selective MRI reacquisition to extend the working range of retrospective motion correction

Retrospective motion correction (RMC) can substantially reduce motion artifacts in 3D brain MRI. However, for extensive motion, RMC performance is limited. We evaluate RMC with selective reacquisition (RMC+reacq) to expand the range of correctable motion, while directly comparing to prospective motion correction (PMC) for volumetric brain MRI, using external motion tracking. Both approaches lead to significant image quality improvement and the performance of RMC+reacq and PMC was only found statistically significant in 1 of 9 comparisons. These results suggest that RMC with selective reacquisition can match the performance of PMC for 3D-MPRAGE and 3D-FLAIR sequences.