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Abstract #3396

Diffusion-Weighted MRI of the Prostate at 3-T: Comparison of Endorectal Coil (ERC) MRI and Phased-Array Coil (PAC) MRI the Impact of SNR on ADC Measurement

Yousef Mazaheri1, Alberto Vargas2, Gregory Nyman2, Amita Shukla-Dave1, Oguz Akin2, Hedvig Hricak2

1Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States; 2Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States

To compare ADC values measured from diffusion-weighted MR (DW-MR) images of the prostate obtained with both endorectal and phased-array coils (ERC+PAC) to those from DW-MRI images obtained with an eight-channel torso phased-array coil (PAC) at 3 Tesla.

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