Stripe artifact can be defined as an image artifact that appears as stripes within an image. There are many subsets:
1. "Zebra stripes" resulting from wrap-around artifact from artifacts outside the field of view.
2. A single stripe with variable intensity, also referred to as "zipper artifact", which can be caused by RF leak, RF feedthrough, or by residual unspoiled transverse magnetization.
3. Alternatively, a series of repetitive stripes across the image, resembling corduroy, can result from focal errors (bad data points) in k-space, which in turn can be caused by static electricity or other momentary electrical phenomenon.