MRI Technologistover 8 years ago

Extracranial DWI

Extracranial DWI is now widely applied in clinical practice to enhance disease assessment and research into its application in the MSK system has been growing. RS-EPI (RESOLVE) is a revolutionary new approach for obtaining high-quality, high-resolution DW images even in body regions strongly affected by susceptibility artifacts, such as MSK (figure). RESOLVE uses the same diffusion preparation as single-shot EPI, however, the k-space trajectory is divided into multiple segments in the readout direction, which allows for a TE and and an encoding-time reduction increasing image quality. Images courtesy of Nguyen Bac.