Abstract #0625

Simultaneous multislice accelerated diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver: comparison of different breathing schemes with standard sequences as reference

Christina Schraml¹, Jana Taron¹, Nina F Schwenzer¹, Holger Schmidt¹, Thomas Kuestner², Michael Erb³, Mike Notohamiprodjo¹, Konstantin Nikolaou¹, Fritz Schick⁴, and Petros Martirosian⁴

¹Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ²Institute of Signal Processing and System Theory, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, ³Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, ⁴Section on Experimental Radiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

SMS-acceleration allows for considerable scan time reduction in hepatic DWI without substantial drawbacks in image quality both using respiratory-triggering and free-breathing acquisitions. In the present study set-up, ADC measured in SMS-DWI were lower than in standard DWI which should be considered when using absolute ADC for clinical reading. The demonstrated high image quality of SMS-DWI obtained in FB indicates great potential for scan time reduction in DWI for abdominal and whole-body applications.

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