Himanshu Bhat1,
Juan Cevasco2, Daniel Cornfeld3, Ralph Strecker4,
Bruce S. Spottiswoode5, Frank H. Miller6, Charles
Fasanati6, Stephen F. Cauley7, Kawin Setsompop7,
Keith A. Heberlein8
1Siemens
Medical Solutions, Charlestown, MA, United States; 2Centro de
Diagnsticos Brasil (CDB), Sao Paulo, Brazil; 3Department of
Diagnostic Radiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States; 4Siemens
Healthcare, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 5Siemens Medical Solutions USA
Inc., Chicago, IL, United States; 6Department of Radiology,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United
States; 7A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department
of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States;
8Siemens Healthcare USA, Charlestown, MA, United States
This study shows feasibility of using the blipped CAIPIRINHA technique with a slice acceleration factor of 2 for DWI in the liver. Comparable quantitative and qualitative results can be acquired with this technique in half the scan time compared with a conventional non slice accelerated sequence.
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