Spatiotemporal encoding (SPEN) is an alternative ultrafast imaging technique which allows one to manipulate the bandwidth along the phase-encoding (PE) direction as well as to achieve T2* refocusing throughout the FID acquisition, thereby overcoming distortions observed along EPI’s PE dimension. The study compares multislice 2D SPEN and a 3D SPEN sequence variants against EPI derivatives, evaluating their ability to deliver prostate diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps on healthy human volunteers. Essentially distortion-free diffusion weighted images and ADC maps of prostate with good SNR were achieved by the 2D SPEN variant.
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