Keywords: Pulse Sequence Design, Data Acquisition
Motivation: DWI is effective for cancer imaging, but conventional EPI suffers from geometric distortion and chemical shift artifacts. Conventional fat suppression techniques are sensitive to the large B0 and B1+ inhomogeneities in the body. Residual fat causes artifacts and is a confounding factor in using DWI for cancer diagnosis.
Goal(s): Perform robust fat/water separation in distortion-free DWI.
Approach: A diffusion-weighted EPTI acquisition and joint reconstruction method is used. Separation is performed using chemical shift encoding along the temporal dimension. A distortion-less FSE-based phase navigator is used to resolve shot-to-shot phase.
Results: The proposed method is validated in vivo in the brain, head&neck, and breast.
Impact: Using the proposed navigated EPTI sequence, we demonstrated fat/water separated DWI that is robust to B0 variation in the body. This will enable more reliable use of DWI to assess cancer and other abnormalities, complementing or replacing contrast-enhanced imaging.
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