> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://bridge-lab.gitbook.io/docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://bridge-lab.gitbook.io/docs/imaging/image-analysis/general-concepts/image-qc/raw-data-qc/diffusion-qc.md).

# Diffusion QC

Diffusion data includes DTI, DKI, FBI, and other similar sequences. All sequences' QC notes should be recorded in independent fields in a given study's REDCap project.

There are a variety of possible diffusion QC issues to be aware of, such as signal dropouts and other movement artifacts.

&#x20;However, due to our preprocessing procedures' ability to compensate for many known artifacts, the only artifact type that we note in our study documentation is ghosting.&#x20;

Ghosting is, in short, the effect of blurred versions of images being repeated over the central image. [You can read more about ghosting here](https://mriquestions.com/ghosting.html). Since assessing artifacts is a subjective process, we attempt to quantify the level of ghosting via the criteria below.

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All QC documentation is kept in REDCap. So once you decide on the level of ghosting in a particular dataset, you will document it in a module that looks like this:

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