As a noun, a motion artifact produced when stored images are played back incorrectly.
These scanners could scan the body in 2-5 seconds, thereby eliminating motion artifacts due to breathing.
The underexposed frame is recorded directly before the main frame to reduce motion artifacts caused by misalignment of those two images.
This type of conversion typically degrades the quality of the broadcast image, usually resulting with either "motion artifacts" or a lower resolution.
This method incurs no motion artifacts other than the slightly increased speed, which is typically not noticeable.
The larger differences between the 30p and 25i framerates will cause less noticeable motion artifacts upon conversion.
The downside is that interlace motion artifacts are almost impossible to remove resulting in horizontal "toothed" edges on moving objects.
MRI avoids this radiation but is difficult to implement, and often suffers from motion artifacts.
It is this difference that can result in motion artifacts.
This can result in a reduction of motion artifacts.