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Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Abdomen using Echo Planar Imaging with Compressed SENSE (EPICS)
Yoshifumi Noda1, Takayuki Mori1, Nobuyuki Kawai1, Kimihiro Kajita2, Yuta Akamine3, Masami Yoneyama3, Fuminori Hyodo4, and Masayuki Matsuo1
1Department of Radiology, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, 2Department of Radiology Services, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan, 3Philips Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 4Department of Frontier Science for Imaging, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
EPICS significantly reduce noise-like artifacts and improve the accuracy of ADC values compared with C-EPI-DWI.
Figure 2: Diffusion-weighted image and apparent diffusion coefficient map obtained with echo planar imaging with Compressed SENSE (EPICS).
Table 2: Quantitative imaging parameters in C-EPI-DWI and EPICS.