Feasibility of Simultaneous Multislice Acceleration Technique in Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Rectum.

Jae Hyon Park Nieun Seo Joon Seok Lim Jongmoon Hahm Myeong Jin Kim

Published in: Korean journal of radiology (2020)

SMS-DWI using an acceleration factor of 2 is feasible for rectal MRI resulting in substantial reductions in acquisition time while maintaining diagnostic image quality and similar ADC values to those of C-DWI.

Keyphrases

contrast enhanced
diffusion weighted
image quality
diffusion weighted imaging
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
dual energy
magnetic resonance
rectal cancer