Towards a generalization of the MP2RAGE partial volume estimation model to account for B1+inhomogeneities at 7T

International audience; Brain morphometry performed with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is affected by partial volume (PV) effects when single voxels contain the signal from two different tissues. This paper proposes a generalization of the MP2 RAGE sequence PV estimation model which accounts for transmitted magnetic field (B1 {+}) inhomogeneities at 7T. Our simulation experiments demonstrated that the PV estimation error of the proposed model is significantly lower than the error obtained with the same model neglecting B1 {+} inhomogeneities (p