Considerations in high-resolution skeletal muscle diffusion tensor imaging using single-shot echo planar imaging with

Dimitrios C Karampinos1, Suchandrima Banerjee, Kevin F King

  • 1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. dimitrios.karampinos@ucsf.edu

NMR in Biomedicine
|November 15, 2011
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a new method combining diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with echo planar imaging (EPI) to improve skeletal muscle imaging. The enhanced technique reduces distortions, allowing for clearer visualization of small muscles and complex fiber structures.

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