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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2023 Dec 26;91(5):2057–2073. doi: 10.1002/mrm.29981

Table 1:

Pulse sequence parameters. Abbreviations: TR = repetition time, TE = echo time, VENC = velocity encoding parameter, FOV = field of view, Tsat = time gap between global saturation and start of background suppression, MLEV-4 = Malcolm-Levitt T2-preparation scheme, bSSFP = balanced steady-state free precession, and BW = bandwidth.

Module K-MOTIVE & db-K-MOTIVE
Phase contrast: radial acquisition TR = 7.50 ms
TE = 4.63 ms

Flip angle = 12°; in dual-band, flip angles: α = β = 12°
The polarity of the β-RF pulse alternates
Slice separation ~ 100 mm

VENC = 50 cm/s
Golden angle = 111.25°

FOV = 300 × 300 mm2
Number of readout samples = 300
Voxel size = 1 × 1 × 5 mm3
BW/pixel = 833 Hz/pixel

Tsat = 2500 ms
Spokes per interleaf = 144
Interleaves = 5
Total spokes = 720
Background suppression Slice-selective saturation followed by 4 adiabatic inversion pulses
90°SS-180°SS-180°SS-180°NS-180°NS

SS: slice-selective; NS: non-selective
Ratio of inversion slab thickness to T2-prepared bSSFP imaging slice thickness = 1.5

SS inversion slab thickness = 18 mm

Total duration = 1000ms
Pulse times (ms): 0, 140, 450, 750, 940

In dual-band implementation, the first two SS adiabatic inversions are composed of the sum of two adiabatic inversion pulses, partially shifted in time.
T2-preparation 90°x…(90°x180°y90°x)4n…270°x360°-x
MLEV-4 pattern: +y, +y, -y, -y
All non-selective RECT pulses

Five interleaves: n = 0, 1, 2, 3, sat*
τ180 = 12 ms
T2-preparation times = 0, 48, 96, 144, and ∞ ms

* Saturated magnetization for a three-parameter fit of bSSFP signal
bSSFP Readout Flip angle = 60°; in dual-band, flip angles: α = β = 60°
The phase increments of the α- and β-RF pulses are +π/2 and –π/2, respectively, to modulate every other line of k-space by π
Slice separation ~ 100 mm

10 catalyzation TRs
Phase partial-Fourier factor = 50%
14 reference lines

TR = 4.50 ms, TE = 2.25 ms
FOV = 300 × 300 mm2
Reconstruction matrix = 200 × 200
Voxel size = 1.5 × 1.5 × 12 mm3
BW/pixel = 1250 Hz/pixel