ArticleEuropean radiology2020
Stimulated-echo diffusion-weighted imaging with moderate b values for the detection of prostate cancer.
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- Quantitative Prostate MRI, From theAJR. American journal of roentgenology · 2025Review
- Single-shot multi-b-value (SSMb) diffusion-weighted MRI using spin echo and stimulated echoes with variable flip angles.NMR in biomedicine · 2024Article
- Partial Fourier in the presence of respiratory motion in prostate diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Quantitative diffusion MRI in prostate cancer: Image quality, what we can measure and how it improves clinical assessment.European journal of radiology · 2023Review
- Emerging MR methods for improved diagnosis of prostate cancer by multiparametric MRI.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Review
- High-Resolution, High b-Value Computed Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Improves Detection of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.Cancers · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesConventional spin-echo (SE) DWI leads to a fundamental trade-off depending on the b value: high b value provides better lesion contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) by sacrificing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), image quality, and quantitative reliability. A stimulated-echo (STE) DWI acquisition is evaluated for high-CNR imaging of prostate cancer while maintaining SNR and reliable apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping.
methodsIn this prospective, IRB-approved study, 27 patients with suspected prostate cancer (PCa) were scanned with three DWI sequences (SE b = 800 s/mm
resultsQuantitative measurements showed that STE DWI at b = 800 s/mm
conclusionSTE DWI has the potential to provide high-SNR, high-CNR imaging of prostate cancer while also enabling reliable ADC mapping. KEY POINTS: • Quantitative analysis showed that STE DWI at b = 800 s/mm
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