Periodically Rotated Overlapping Parallel Lines with Enhanced Reconstruction (PROPELLER) is one of the newer magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods developed to correct motion artifacts. PROPELLER uses a radial scan variation of the fast spin-echo sequence and spatial inconsistencies to be corrected using self navigation and an averaging effect for low spatial frequencies. We report and assess the imaging findings in a restless patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a point mutation at codon 180 in prion protein DNA using PROPELLER diffusion-weighted MRI.
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