Filli L, Piccirelli M, Kenkel D, Guggenberger R, Andreisek G, Beck T, Runge VM, Boss A. Invest Radiol. 2015 Mar 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of accelerated diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of skeletal muscle using echo planar imaging (EPI) applying simultaneous multislice excitation with a blipped CAPIRINHA unaliasing technique.
Conclusions: Simultaneous multislice EPI with blipped controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration can remarkably reduce acquisition time in DTI of skeletal muscle with similar image quality and quantification accuracy of diffusion parameters. This may increase the clinical applicability of muscle anisotropy measurements.