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Table 2 Diffusion-weighted imaging parameters

From: Safely reducing unnecessary benign breast biopsies by applying non-mass and DWI directional variance filters to ADC thresholding

 

Philips Achieva 1.5 T

Philips Achieva 3.0 T

TR [ms]

16,860–16,960

10,546–13,863

TE [ms]

80.1

63.9–67.5

Field-of-view [mm2]

300 × 300–330 × 330

300 × 300–390 × 390

In-plane resolution [mm]

1.15–1.25

1.04–1.25

Slice thickness [mm]

2.5

2.5

Number of slices

80

65–80

b values [s/mm2]

0, 800

0, 800

  1. “TR”—repetition time, “TE”—echo time