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Comparison of Air Coil and the traditional abdomen coil for multiplexed sensitivity encoding diffusion weighted imaging (MUSE-DWI) of the liver
Wen Huiquan1, Zhang Yao2, Lin Wusheng2, Pi Shan2, Fang Ling3, and Wang Jin2
1Radiology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China, 2the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China, 3Department of Radiology, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China
With the same scanning protocol, our study demonstrated that using advanced AIR coil combined with MUSE DWI technology may improve the image quality of MUSE-DWI images, so it is helpful for the detection of the liver lesions based on radiologists’ ratings.
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Figure 1. The noise and clarity of the liver contour obtained by AIR Coil (Score=5) are significantly higher than those of Traditional Coil (Score=3).