Publications by authors named "Yurika Shimamura"
Cancers (Basel)
April 2024
Article Synopsis
- Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is often affected by quality issues due to susceptibility artifacts, and new imaging techniques like fast advanced spin-echo (FASE) and deep learning reconstruction (DLR) aim to improve this.
- The study used both in vitro (phantom) and in vivo (patient) testing to compare the effectiveness of FASE and DLR against traditional echo-planar imaging (EPI) regarding image quality and the ability to distinguish between malignant and benign tumors.
- Results showed that FASE with DLR significantly enhanced image quality and signal-to-noise ratio while maintaining accuracy in measuring the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and differentiating tumor types compared to EPI.
