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  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Targeted inner-volume-imaging (IVI) improves renal diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) quality by reducing artifacts and blurring. This technique maintains accurate quantitative diffusion and IVIM measurements compared to conventional methods.

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  • Radiology
  • Medical Imaging
  • Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Background:

  • Renal diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is crucial for assessing kidney function and disease.
  • Conventional single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequences can suffer from artifacts like distortion and blurring.
  • Inner-volume-imaging (IVI) offers a potential solution to enhance image quality in DWI.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility of combining the inner-volume-imaging (IVI) technique with single-shot diffusion-weighted (DW) spin-echo echo-planar imaging (SE-EPI) and DW-SPLICE sequences for renal DWI.
  • To compare the image quality and quantitative diffusion measurement accuracy of targeted IVI methods with conventional full field of view (FOV) DWI techniques.

Main Methods:

  • Renal DWI was performed in 10 healthy volunteers using single-shot DW-SE-EPI, DW-SPLICE, targeted-DW-SE-EPI, and targeted-DW-SPLICE.
  • Image quality (artifacts, distortion, blurring) and quantitative diffusion measurements (ADC, IVIM) were compared between targeted and conventional full-FOV methods in phantoms and volunteers.

Main Results:

  • Targeted-DW-SE-EPI and targeted-DW-SPLICE demonstrated superior image quality with fewer artifacts, less distortion, and reduced blurring compared to full-FOV methods.
  • Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were similar across all four methods and consistent with published data.
  • No significant differences were found in ADC or intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) measurements between single-shot DW-SE-EPI, targeted-DW-EPI, and targeted-DW-SPLICE in the kidney cortex and medulla.

Conclusions:

  • Targeted IVI techniques significantly improve image quality in renal DWI by reducing distortion and artifacts.
  • These targeted methods maintain comparable quantitative diffusion and IVIM measurements to conventional full-FOV approaches.
  • Targeted-DW-SE-EPI and targeted-DW-SPLICE are feasible and effective for high-quality renal DWI.