title: Abdomen: diffusion-weighted MR imaging with pulse-triggered single-shot sequences.
abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion measurements of the abdomen were performed in 12 healthy volunteers by using a diffusion-weighted single-shot sequence both without and with pulse triggering for different trigger delays. Pulse triggering to the diastolic heart phase led to reduced motion artifacts on the diffusion-weighted MR images and to significantly improved accuracy and reproducibility of measurements of the apparent diffusion coefficients, or ADCs, of abdominal organs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany. muertz@uni-bonn.de
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mürtz
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Flacke
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Träber
authors.forename: Johan S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: van den Brink
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gieseke
authors.forename: Hans H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Schild
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000328:Adult; D016477:Artifacts; D004058:Diffusion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007672:Kidney Cortex; D008099:Liver; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D013154:Spleen