Readout-segmented Echo-planar Imaging Improves the Diagnostic Performance of Diffusion-weighted MR Breast Examinations at 3.0 T

Abstract

DW imaging based on readout-segmented echo-planar imaging provided significantly higher image quality and lesion conspicuity than single-shot echo-planar imaging by reducing geometric distortions, image blurring, and artifact level with a clinical high-field-strength MR imager. Thereby, readout-segmented echo-planar imaging reached a higher diagnostic accuracy for the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions.