RESOLVE vs. SS-EPI – Spine Imaging @ Siemens 1.5T Aera I must admit, i’m not fully happy with RESOLVE for spine imaging. Due to the time you put into the scan, the results can vary between good, ok and suboptimal. I find it hard to optimize a good and robust RESOLVE for spine, so I’m going back to the old school SS-EPI for further optimizing. With RESOLVE I also notice b value above b600 can give problems due to image quality, if you don’t put extra scantime into it. In this test the SS-EPI had b0, b1000 and ADC map. The resolution is not near as RESOLVE, but the image quality due to high b value, distortion and scantime of only 1min and 40 sec, I must admit I’m surprised. This is just my experience, so if anyone have good experience with RESOLVE for spine imaging, I would like to hear.#s_mri #siemens#mri #dwi