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. 2023 Nov 9;4(4):102681. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102681

Table 1.

Acquisition details for T2-weighted, T2∗-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI)

MRI modality Acquisition time Resolution/Matrix size Acquisition parameters
T2-weighted 33 min 60 × 60 × 60 μm/400 × 160 × 200 TurboRARE, TE = 12 ms, echo spacing = 12 ms, 6 echoes, TR = 350 ms, BW = 60 kHz
T2∗-weighted 26 min 100 × 100 × 100 μm/240 × 96 × 120 3D Multi-echo GRE, FA = 15°, TE1 = 3 ms, echo spacing = 3 ms, 20 echoes, TR = 68 ms, NR = 2, BW = 250 kHz
dMRI 13 h 100 × 100 × 100 μm/240 × 96 × 120 Segmented EPI, 12 segments, TE = 30 ms, TR = 500 ms, δ/Δ = 6.7/13.5 ms, b = 0 s/mm2 (volumes: 4 + 1 phase-encoding reversed), b = 2500 s/mm2 (volumes: 30), b = 10000 s/mm2 (volumes: 30), BW = 250 kHz, directions covering the whole shell and staggered between shells

Turbo Rapid Acquisition with Relaxation Enhancement (RARE), echo time (TE), repetition time (TR), bandwidth (BW), gradient echo (GRE), flip angle (FA), number of repetitions (NR), echo-planar imaging (EPI), duration of the diffusion-encoding gradient (δ), time interval between the two diffusion-encoding gradients (Δ), and b-value (b).