Evaluation of trigeminal nerve tractography using two-fold-accelerated simultaneous multi-slice readout-segmented echo planar diffusion tensor imaging.

Objectives: Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging with short repetition time (TR) accelerates diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) acquisitions. However, its impact when combined with readout-segmented echo planar imaging (RESOLVE) on the cranial nerves given the challenging skull base/posterior fossa terrain is unexplored. We evaluated the reliability of trigeminal nerve DTI metrics using SMS with RESOLVE-DTI.