Abstract #1823

A Comparison of Readout Segmented EPI and Interleaved EPI in High Resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Yishi Wang¹, Xiaodong Ma¹, Zhe Zhang¹, Erpeng Dai¹, Ha-Kyu Jeong², Bin Xie³, Chun Yuan^1,4, and Hua Guo¹

¹Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, ²BIU Clinical Science MR, Philips Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Healthcare Department, Philips Research China, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, ⁴Vascular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

Multi-shot interleaved EPI (iEPI) and readout segmented EPI (RS-EPI) are two alternative strategies for high resolution diffusion imaging. This study made a comparison of the two methods in different aspects. Our comparison showed that the iEPI had the advantage of largely reducing the geometric distortion. Both RS-EPI and iEPI could achieve high resolution diffusion tensor imaging.

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