Naoki Ohno1, Kotaro Yoshida1, Yu Ueda2, Tosiaki Miyati1, Yuki Koshino1, Toshifumi Gabata1, and Satoshi Kobayashi1
1Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, 2Philips Japan, Tokyo, Japan
1Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, 2Philips Japan, Tokyo, Japan
A single breath-hold abdominal diffusion-weighted
imaging (DWI) with simultaneous multislice technique demonstrated comparable
accuracy and repeatability in quantification of apparent diffusion coefficient
with conventional respiratory-triggered DWI.
Figure 4. Representative ADC and diffusion-weighted
images (b = 0 and 800 s/mm2) with BH-DWI (upper row) and RT-DWI
(lower row). BH-DWI, breath-hold diffusion-weighted imaging; RT-DWI, respiratory-triggered
diffusion-weighted imaging; ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient.
Figure 2. Comparisons
between BH- and RT-DWI for ADC in different abdominal regions.
BH-DWI,
breath-hold diffusion-weighted imaging; RT-DWI,
respiratory-triggered diffusion-weighted imaging;
ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient.