Whole-Body
STIR Diffusion-Weighted MRI in One Third of the Time
Alto Stemmer1,
Wilhelm Horger1, Berthold Kiefer1
1Healthcare
Sector, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
This work describes a recently developed DW-EPI sequence
with STIR fat suppression. The sequence utilizes an efficient IR interleaving
scheme and thereby allows reducing scan times of whole Body DWI up to one
third.
