Water-fat separation in diffusion-weighted MRI using an EPI-IDEAL approach

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Abstract

Effective fat suppression can significantly extend the acquisition time in EPI-based diffusion MRI outside the brain. We present a single-shot diffusion-weighted EPI in combination with IDEAL method for fat-water sepa-ration utilising the inherent signal averaging from the chemical shift encoding. We utilise a B0 map acquired without diffusion weighting to demodulate images at higher b-values before reconstruction to improve the water-fat separation. This technique was tested in phantom and healthy volunteers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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