Toward an Intravoxel Incoherent Motion 2-in-1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequence for Ischemic Stroke Diagnosis? An Initial Clinical Experience With 1.5T Magnetic Resonance

This initial study aimed to investigate the feasibility of simultaneously measuring perfusion and diffusion including kurtosis features in acute ischemic stroke with the combined intravoxel incoherent motion and non-Gaussian diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI-IVIM).Five ischemic stroke patients underwent a 4-minute diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) protocol, using 8 b values chosen with the Cramer-Rao-Lower-Bound optimization approach, in addition...