The objective is to investigate the concept of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) for diffusion weight imaging (DWI) in the kidney. We first compared the variability of three methods for bi-exponential fitting applied to the five data sets of DWI obtained in a mouse kidney. Subsequently these three methods were compared with an arterial spin labeling (ASL) in detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a rat model. The IVIM imaging did not detect any changes in the AKI model although the ASL clearly demonstrated the reduction of the perfusion.
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