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Abstract #1472

Correcting Breast DWI Distortion with Reversed Phase Encoding Direction

Zhan Xu1, Leah Henze Bancroft1, Andrew L. Alexander2, 3, Frederick Kelcz4

1Department of BioMedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Department of Medical Physics and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 3Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison , WI, United States; 4Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Our work aims at restoring undistorted DWI for breast imaging which is suffering from imperfect fat suppression and low SNR. We acquire two identical DWIs with reversed Phase Encoding Direction then apply correction in a manner of averaging magnetic field inhomogeneity. Corrected DWIs were compared with identical T2W NoFatSuppression images. Our methods well reconstruct the undistorted DWI,both location and signal intensity of lesion and breast are well maintained.

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