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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Dec 31;53(5):1594–1605. doi: 10.1002/jmri.27492

TABLE 1.

b-Value equivalent (beqbr) for DW-DESS-Cones in this study

Conventional
DWI b-value (b)
(s/mm2)		 DW-DESS-
Cones diffusion
gradient
amplitude
(mT/m)		 DW-DESS-
Cones b-value
equivalent—
breast (beqbr)
0 16 0
200 26 200
400 36 400
600 47 600
800 57 800
1000 68 1000

Note: b-Value equivalency—breast (beqbr) metric established for DW-DESS-Cones based on phantom experiments (Figure 2).