We investigated the feasibility of simultaneous multislice-accelerated diffusion-weighted imaging of the pancreas using an acceleration factor of 2 and 3 (sms2/sms3-DWI) and its influence on image quality, acquisition time and apparent diffusion coefficients in comparison to conventional sequences (c-DWI) in ten healthy volunteers and 20 patients at 1.5 T. Images recorded with sms2-DWI offered high quality with a scan time reduction to one third; sms3-DWI showed significantly poorer overall image quality. In conclusion, sms2-DWI is feasible in clinical routine providing high image quality and a substantial reduction of acquisition time, whereas the use of higher acceleration factors is currently not recommended.
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