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Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2009 Aug;44(8):454–462. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181a8b015

TABLE 1.

Imaging Parameters for Conventional Full FOV PROPELLER and Reduced FOV Targeted-PROPELLER Images for In Vivo Applications

	Brain			Abdomen				Cardiu			Vessel Wall
Full FOV PROPELLER
FOV (mm²)	200 × 200			300 × 300				350 × 350			350 × 350
TR (ms)	2000			3000				2 × R-R			2 × R-R
TE (ms)	100			90				58			58
TH (mm)	5			5				5			3
Matrix	256			256				192			192
Resolution (mm²)	0.8 × 0.8			1.2 × 1.2				1.8 × 1.8			1.8 × 1.8
ETL	25			28				21			21
Blade coverage (BC) (%)	100		100	73.3			53.3	100			100
N_blade × BC	17		15	11			8	9			9
BW (Hz/Pi)	400			400				235			235
TA (min:sec)	0:36		0:48	0:36			0:27	0:20			0:20
GRAPPA	No			No				Yes			Yes
Others	DEFT vs. no DEFT			Fat saturation				DIR			DIR
				Free breathing				ECG gating			Fat saturation
				Motion correction							ECG gating
	Brain 1		Brain 2			Abdomen			Cardiac		Vessel Wall

Targeted-PROPELLER
FOV (mm²)	100 × 100	50 × 50	100 × 100			150 × 150			115 × 115		115 × 115	66 × 66
TR (ms)	2000		2000			3000			2 × R-R		2 × R-R
TE (ms)	100		100			90			58		58
TH (mm)	5		5			5			5		3
Matrix	128	64	256		128		192	64			64
Resolution (mm²)	0.8 × 0.8		0.4 × 0.4		1.2 × 1.2		0.8 × 0.8	1.8 × 1.8	0.9 × 0.9	128	1.8 × 1.8	1.0 × 1.0
ETL	25		25			28			21		21
Blade coverage (BC) (%)	100		100	100	75	50	100	100	60	100	100	300
N_blade × BC	9	5	17	8	6	4	12	5	3	10	5	15
BW (Hz/Px)	400		400			400			235		235
TA (min:sec)	0:20	0:12	0:36	0:27	0:21	0:15	0:39	0:12	0:08	0:22	0:12	0:32
Others	DEFT vs. no DEFT		DEFT		Fat saturation				DIR		DIR
					Free breathing				ECG gating		Fat saturation
					Motion correction						ECG gating