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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Aug 3;37(1):227–232. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23762

Table 1.

Sources of magnetic field inhomogeneity include linear and higher order terms of the background magnetic field and subject-specific induced variations.

Field Map Variations Computed In Vivo Measured In Vivo Reference Ball Phantom Difference
Linear Background Magnet Field X X
Higher Order Background Magnet Field X X X
Linear + Higher Order Subject Specific X X
Residual Subject Specific X X