With 3 Types of Respiratory Acquisition: 3.0 T Respiratory Triggered Acquisition Can Obtain Higher Quality DWI Images of the Upper Abdomen

Table 2

Comparison of the image quality for three DWI in different field strengths.

B (T)		RT	BH	FB	^1P	^2P	^3P
1.5	b = 100	3.4 ± 0.3	2.6 ± 0.9	3.5 ± 0.4	<0.0001	0.7	<0.0001
	b = 800	2.6 ± 0.6	2.5 ± 0.5	2.8 ± 0.5	0.696	0.3	0.16
3.0	b = 100	4.1 ± 0.2	2.6 ± 0.5	2.2 ± 0.4	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.08
	b = 800	3.2 ± 0.2	2.5 ± 0.4	2.1 ± 0.3	0.003	<0.0001	0.071

BH, breath-holding DWI; RT, respiratory-triggered DWI; FB, free-breathing DWI. ¹P, RT vs. BH; ²P, RT vs. FB; ³P, BH vs. FB.