Damien McHugh1,
2, Penny L. Hubbard1, 2, Geoffrey Parker1,
2, Josephine H. Naish1, 2
1Centre
for Imaging Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2The
University of Manchester Biomedical Imaging Institute, Manchester, United
Kingdom
The effect that imaging gradients have on b-values in oscillating and pulsed gradient diffusion sequences are compared. The impact this has on parameters obtained from model fitting is then evaluated using synthetic data from three models: monoexponential decay, biexponential decay, and the kurtosis model. It is shown that the diffusion-weighting introduced by imaging gradients in oscillating gradient sequences has little impact on parameter estimates for each model. Conversely, ignoring the influence of imaging gradients in pulsed gradient sequences is shown to lead to significant errors in fitted parameters, especially for the biexponential model.