Keywords: Pancreas, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniquesDWI is essential in clinical diagnosis of pancreas. Image quality highly influence ADC measurements. Pancreases in abdomen easily suffers from artifact induced by abdominal and chest respiratory motion. A new diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequence was explored to better delineate pancreas in our previous study (named FOCUS-MUSE DWI). In this study, we compared the clinical utility of FOCUS-MUSE DWI, MUSE DWI, FOCUS DWI and SS DWI using four different breathing schemes (RT, NT, BH and FB) for the repeatability of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements and image quality. Our results suggested that RT‑DWI provided the best ADC reproducibility and image quality among four breathing schemes on 3.0 T MRI, making it as the recommended protocol for clinical DWI of the pancreas.
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