Comparison of intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging between turbo spin-echo and echo-planar imaging of the head and neck.

Ryoji MikayamaHidetake YabuuchiShinjiro SonodaKoji KobayashiKazuya NagatomoMitsuhiro KimuraSatoshi KawanamiTakeshi KamitaniSeiji KumazawaHiroshi Honda

Published in: European radiology (2017)

• Head and neck DWI is especially sensitive to magnetic inhomogeneity. • The distortion of images was less with TSE-DWI than with EPI-DWI. • TSE-DWI can possibly exhibit higher ADC and IVIM-derived parameters than EPI-DWI. • Bland-Altman analysis showed unacceptable LoA in quantitative analysis between TSE-DWI and EPI-DWI. • It is not recommended to use both TSE-DWI and EPI-DWI for follow-up.

Keyphrases

diffusion weighted imaging
magnetic resonance imaging
contrast enhanced
diffusion weighted
deep learning
density functional theory
fluorescence imaging