Table 3. Magnetic resonance imaging protocol.
| Sequences | TR (ms) | TE (ms) | Flip angle | Slice thickness (mm) | FOV (mm) | NEX | Locs per slab | Matrix | Acquisition time |
| 3D TOF-MRA | 23 | 2.5 | 20 | 1.4 | 220 | 3 | 32 | 320×256 | 4 min 1 s |
| 3D CUBE T1WI | 1140 | 14 | / | 1 | 180 | 1 | 160 | 320×228 | 7 min 5 s |
| 2D FSE T2WI | 4000 | 42 | 125 | 2 | 130 | 4 | 16 | 256×224 | 6 min 8 s |
| DWI | 3000 | 61.8 | / | 5 | 240 | 1 | 18 | 128×130 | 24s |
3D, three dimensional; 2D, two dimensional; DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; TR, repetition time; TE, echo time; FOV, field of view; NEX, number of excitations; Locs per slab, total number of locations (slices) generated from a slab; min, minute; s, second; CUBE, variable-flip-angle turbo-spin-echo.