Table 1. Comparison of SE-DWI and Segmented-EPI DWI.

SE-DWI	Segmented-EPI DWI
Reduced sensitivity to magnetic susceptibility and geometric distortion artefacts	Prone to distortion artefacts and increased demands on the gradient set
Long acquisition time	Shorter acquisition time allows acquisition of more diffusion-encoding directions or more averaging
Relatively low SNR in diffusion weighted images within a limited experiment time	Suitable image quality to study anatomical structures. Allows thinner slices with more averaging to reduce partial volume effects
Unacceptable experiment due to long experiment times and high SAR at short TR values	Provides reproducible results in a tolerable experiment time