SPatio-Temporal ENcoded Diffusion-Weighted Breast MRI Studies

Eddy Solomon¹, Noam Nissan¹, ², Hadassa Degani³, Lucio Frydman¹

Breast imaging is particularly challenging owing to a number of factors, including the relatively high fat/water heterogeneities that characterize breast, the off-center character of the targeted organs, and the unavoidability of breathing/cardiac motions. Here we exploit SPEN’s abilities to deliver quality single-scan images even from challenging regions subject to all these problems, to explore its use in DW MRI. Diffusion SPEN measurements were carried out at 3T in female breast analyses, showing significant advantages in anatomical and diffusional information vis- -vis EPI.