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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 Sep 30;45(2):337–355. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25479

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Comparison of readout-segmented and single-shot EPI breast DWI images in 37-year-old woman with breast cancer (invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 3). (a) Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR image, (b) T2-weighted short inversion time inversion recovery image, and DW images with b = 850 sec/mm2 obtained with (c) single-shot echo-planar imaging, and (d) readout-segmented echo-planar imaging. Significantly stronger geometric distortion artifacts can be seen on (c) single-shot echo-planar image compared with (d) readout-segmented echo-planar image and (b) distortion-free reference STIR image. (d) Readout-segmented echo-planar image also provides significantly higher anatomic detail than (c) single-shot echo-planar image because of reduced T2* blurring. Arrow = malignant lesion. (Adapted from Bogner W, Pinker-Domenig K, Bickel H, et al. Readout-segmented echo-planar imaging improves the diagnostic performance of diffusion-weighted MR breast examinations at 3.0 T. Radiology. 2012;263(1):64–76; with permission.)