Abdominal radiology (New York)
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Comparative Study
Zoomed echo-planar diffusion tensor imaging for MR tractography of the prostate gland neurovascular bundle without an endorectal coil: a feasibility study.
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of zoomed echo-planar imaging (EPI) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with 2-channel parallel transmission (pTx) for MR tractography of the periprostatic neurovascular bundle (NVB) without an endorectal coil, and to compare its performance to that of conventionally acquired DTI. ⋯ Zoomed-EPI DTI acquisition for tractography of the prostate gland NVB improves quantitative and qualitative measures of image and tract fiber quality, allowing tractography of the NVB at 3T without using an endorectal coil.