The application of multiband acceleration technique in temporal diffusion spectroscopy for breast tumor imaging

Both the IMPULSED and MRI-cytometry approaches are based on temporal diffusion spectroscopy (TDS), which connotes the acquisitionof dMRI data with a range of diffusion times expressed in terms of components of a diffusion spectrum. MR cell size imaging is possible with IMPULSED and MRI-cytometry using the theory of TDS. In this study, we proposed to use multiband to accelerate the data acquisition for TDS and compared the IMPULSED quantitative parameters and derivative ADC spectrum for two protocols. Our results showed the consistency in IMPULSED quantitative parameters and ADC calculation for the multiband accelerated protocol with the results without using multiband.