Inhomogeneous static magnetic field‐induced distortion correction applied to diffusion weighted MRI of the breast at 3T

To evaluate the performance of an advanced method for correction of inhomogeneous static magnetic field induced distortion in echo‐planar imaging (EPI), applied to diffusion‐weighted MRI (DWI) of the breast.

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