ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2024
Simultaneous multislice echo-planar diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in patients with focal liver lesions: a comparative study with conventional DWI.
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- Performance of simultaneous multislice diffusion-weighted imaging using monoexponential, intravoxel incoherent motion, and diffusion kurtosis models: assessment of microvascular invasion and histologic grade in hepatocellular carcinoma.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2025Article
- Effect of simultaneous multislice acceleration on the quantitative measurements of diffusion-weighted imaging, intravoxel incoherent motion, and diffusion kurtosis imaging in hepatocellular carcinoma and abdominal organs.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
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Background: Simultaneous multislice (SMS) technology improves acquisition efficiency of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). This study aimed to evaluate the performance of SMS-DWI in image quality and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements for focal liver lesions (FLLs) as compared with that of conventional DWI (CON-DWI). Methods: The institutional ethics committee of West China Hospital, Sichuan University approved this single-center, prospective study conducted from February 2021 to March 2022. Free-breathing SMS-DWI and CON-DWI examinations were acquired on a 3-T scanner with b-values of 50, 400, and 800 s/mm Results: This study included 116 patients (96 males, 20 females; mean age 52.0±10.7 years) with 119 FLLs. No significant differences were observed between SMS-DWI and CON-DWI regarding overall image quality in any b-value DWIs, and there were also no differences observed between SMS-DWI and CON-DWI (b=800 s/mm Conclusions: SMS-DWI achieved a 37% reduction in scan time compared to CON-DWI while maintaining comparable overall image quality. Notably, the ADC values for FLLs were observed to be quantitatively lower with SMS-DWI.
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