Flexible use of AC/DC coil for eddy-currents and concomitant fields mitigation with applications in diffusion-prepared non-Cartesian sampling

This work provides a demonstration that the AC/DC shim-array can be flexibly used to correct undesirable eddy-current and concomitant fields effect in MRI acquisitions, with simulation results showing its effectiveness at mitigating eddy-current induced phase in diffusion-prepared acquisition and in mitigating concomitant fields in non-Cartesian trajectories, such as spiral. Phantom and invivo experiments were also performed on a 46-channel AC/DC shim-array to demonstrate high-fidelity multi-shot 3D diffusion-prepared acquisition without need for SNR-zapping amplitude stabilizer.