Table 1.

Range of Parameters for MP-RAGE Acquisition

B0	Coil	Nx	Ny	Nz No. of slices	FoV (mm)	TRa (ms)	TI (ms)	Flip (deg)	Plane	Δz (mm)	RBW (Hz/pixel)	Time (min:s)
1.5T	BC	192	192	184–208	240 × 240	3000	1000	8	Sagittal PEb = A/P	1.2	162–180	9:36–9:38
1.5T	MA	192	192	160–170	240 × 240	2300–2400	1000	8	Sagittal PE = A/P	1.2	162–200	7:11–7:42
3.0T	MA or BC	256	256c	160–170	256–260 × 240	2300 or 3000d	853–900	8–9	Sagittal PE = A/P	1.2	240–244	9:14–9:22

^aTR is defined here as the repetition time for the inversion pulses.

^bPE is the phase-encoded direction.

^c256 is the base resolution. Because the field of view is rectangular at 3.0 T, the net number of acquired phase-encoding steps is approximately 0.94 × 256 = 240.

^dThe longer value of TR = 3000 at 3 T is used only with pulse sequences where the train of gradient echo readouts represents the in-plane phase encoding. Because there are fewer encoded slices than in-plane phase encodings in the 3 T protocol, the net acquisition time is approximately equal to the TR = 2300 msec case.

MA = multicoil phased-array head coil; BC = birdcage or volume head coil.