Simultaneous multislice echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in patients with focal liver lesions: a comparative study with conventional DWI.

Yingyi Wu Zheng Ye Ting Yang Shan Yao Jie Chen Ting Yin Hehan Tang Xijiao Liu

Published in: Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery (2024)

SMS-DWI achieved a 37% reduction in scan time compared to CON-DWI while maintaining comparable overall image quality. Notably, the ADC values for FLLs were observed to be quantitatively lower with SMS-DWI.

Keyphrases

diffusion weighted imaging
contrast enhanced
magnetic resonance imaging
image quality
computed tomography
diffusion weighted
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