Abstract #3631
Accelerated whole-body diffusion weighted imaging with blipped CAIPIRINHA based simultaneous multislice acquisition
Himanshu Bhat 1 , Thomas Doring 2 , Daniel Cornfeld 3 , Ralph Strecker 4 , Stephen F. Cauley 5 , Kawin Setsompop 5 , Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt 2 , Romeu Domingues 2 , and Keith Heberlein 1
1
Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc,
Charlestown, MA, United States,
2
CDPI/DASA,
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
3
Department
of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New
Haven, CT, United States,
4
Siemens
Ltda, So Paulo, So Paulo, Brazil,
5
A.
A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of
Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown,
MA, United States
The goal of this work was to apply the blipped
CAIPIRINHA slice acceleration technique to spin echo EPI
based whole-body DWI and compare the results with a
conventional non slice accelerated acquisition. 8
healthy volunteers and 6 patients were scanned with both
sequences. Quantitative comparison between the two
sequences showed similar ADC values in multiple organs.
Qualitative comparison showed comparable image quality
and diagnosis in all 6 patients with both sequences.
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