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This work describes a new method for diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without susceptibility artifacts. The technique combines a DW spin-echo module and a single-shot stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) MRI readout with undersampled radial trajectories and covers a volume by a gapless series of cross-sectional slices. In a first step, optimal coil sensitivities for all slices are obtained from a series of non-DW acquisitions by nonlinear inverse reconstruction with regularization to the image and coil sensitivities of a directly neighboring slice. In a second step, these coil sensitivities are used to compute all series of non-DW and DW images by linear inverse reconstruction with spatial regularization to a neighboring image. Proof-of-principle applications to the brain (51 sections) and prostate (31 sections) of healthy subjects were realized for a protocol with two b-values and 6 gradient directions at 3 T. Including averaging the measuring times for studies of the brain at 1.0×1.0×3.0 mm 3 resolution (b =1,000 s mm -2 ) and prostate at 1.4×1.4×3.0 mm 3 resolution (b =600 s mm -2 ) were 2.5 min and 4.5 min, respectively. All reconstructions were accomplished online with use of a multi-GPU computer integrated into the MRI system. The resulting non-DW images, mean DW images averaged across directions and maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient confirm the absence of geometric distortions or false signal alterations and demonstrate diagnostic image quality. The novel method for DW STEAM MRI of a volume without susceptibility artifacts warrants extended clinical trials.

quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without susceptibility artifacts: single-shot stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) MRI with iterative reconstruction and spatial regularization