New paper: Pros and Cons of High-Performance Gradient Enabled Short-TE Prostate DWI: A Prospective Study
Congratulations to Dominika Skwierawska, Maximilian Bachl and co-authors on the recently published article “Pros and Cons of High-Performance Gradient Enabled Short-TE Prostate DWI: A Prospective Study”!
This study evaluated the impact of echo time (TE) on prostate diffusion-weighted MRI, finding that a shorter TE (41 ms) improved lesion conspicuity and image quality on high b-value images compared to a longer TE (70 ms). However, the diagnostic performance of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) was reduced at shorter TE. Thus, while shorter TE enhances visual detection of lesions, it may compromise ADC-based lesion characterization.
The full article can be found here: