A novel clinical protocol for prostate diffusion imaging is presented. The commonly applied strategy of averaging MR signal at a small number of b-values is replaced by the acquisition of a whole range of b-values in conjunction with a model fitting post precessing step. With no increase in acquisition time, our results show that the same image quality can be achieved. As a main benefit, modelling is made more consistent and largely b-value independent for both the simple ADC model, as well as for more complex signal representations such as the kurtosis model.
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