Abstract #2067

Effect of Number of Shots on the Calculated Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Phantoms and in Human Liver in Diffusion Weighted Echo Planar Imaging

Masoud Shiehmorteza¹, Claude Sirlin¹, Tanya Wolfson², Anthony Gamst², Andre Soumekh¹, Shay Heaton¹, Chad Kohl³, Nicholas Pinto¹, Mark Bydder¹

¹Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; ²Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; ³Radiology, University of Arizona

Purpose: To determine whether ADC measurement was influenced by number of shots in a diffusion-weighted single-shot SE EPI and to assess the magnitude of this effect for multiple b-value