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Respiratory correlated 4D-MRI has the potential to be a valuable tool in radiotherapy. This work aims to optimise and validate a 4D-MRI golden angle stack of stars radial sequence for measuring respiratory motion of abdominal organs. A 4D motion phantom is used to compare 4D-MRI against 4D-CT. For craniocaudal movement, motion is underestimated in 4D-MRI but motion estimation improves for non-axial acquisitions. This could be due to the alignment of the motion direction with the cartesian phase encoding direction for axial stack of stars acquisitions.
Chick et al. (Wed,) studied this question.