Diffusion weighted imaging is an important modality in assessing and detecting prostate cancer, but often suffers from distortion artifact introduced by the EPI readout. We propose a TSE-BLADE split-echo sequence that has the potential for obtaining non-distorted diffusion weighted imaging of the prostate, while obtaining accurate ADC estimations. It is shown to be robust to motion and phase induced artifacts that pester multi-shot diffusion weighted imaging, in phantom measurements and initial patient results.
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