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Abstract #3098

IVIM values in healthy brain

Steren Chabert1, Jorge Verdu1,2, Gamaliel Huerta1, Cristian Montalba3, Pablo Cox4, Rodrigo Riveros4,5, Sergio Uribe3,6, Rodrigo Salas1, and Alejandro Veloz1,7

1Biomedical Engineering Department, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile, 2Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 3Center for Biomedical Imaging, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 4Servicio de Imagenología, Hospital Carlos van Buren, Valparaiso, Chile, 5Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile, 6Radiology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 7Informatics Department, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Even though there is much interest in brain IVIM imaging, it is difficult to get a clear view from literature on which values to expect. Our purpose is to obtain healthy brain D, D* and f, to add findings and get closer to reference values. Two distributions of 16 b-values were used to acquire data on 10 volunteers, at 1.5T: one commonly found in literature and the other considered as optimal. Values obtained from the “optimal distribution” were significantly different in all cases but D in white matter. This study emphasizes the dependence of IVIM results on the acquisition scheme applied.

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