To address the issue of phase induced artifacts in multi-shot diffusion weighted imaging, we propose a model-based framework which enables the joint estimation of diffusion and phase parameters directly from the multi-shot k-q-space. In a simulation study, we show that using this framework, diffusion parameters can be estimated more accurately and precisely than with the conventional method (image reconstruction followed by voxel-wise model fitting) that ignores phase differences.
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