Sam Sharifzadeh Javidi1 and Hamidreza Saligheh Rad1,2
1Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of), 2Quantitative MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Research Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
1Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of), 2Quantitative MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Group, Research Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Changing the IVIM imaging pattern
from three orthogonal orientations and several b-values to alternative imaging
with multi orientations and three b-values improved the accuracy of estimating
output parameters.
Fig 1. In-vivo comparison of estimated parameters using conventional
IVIM (upper row) and alternative multi orientations method (bottom row).
Table
1 Correlation coefficient between ground truth and
estimated parameters (D and D*) for the conventional method and proposed method.