. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 10.

Published in final edited form as: Radiol Clin North Am. 2015 May;53(3):569–581. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2015.01.002

Table 1.

Diffusion weighted imaging acquisition parameters

	Liver	Pancreas with Small FOV	Rectum	Prostate	Prostate with Small FOV
TR (ms)	3000	7500 (NT)	3500	3500	6000
TE (ms)	60	60	80	75	75
Slice thickness (mm)	7	6	5	4	3
Gap (mm)	1	0	1	0	0
FOV (cm)	40	24	22	16	16
Matrix size	128 × 128	160 × 80	128 × 128	128 × 128	160 × 80
NE_x	1, 2, 3, 4	6, 16	4	4	16
b Values	50, 250, 350, 500	50, 500	400, 800	400, 700, 1000	1000

Abbreviations: FOV, field of view; NE_x, number of excitations; NT, navigator triggering; TE, time to echo; TR, time to repetition.