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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuroimaging. 2011 Apr;21(2):e50–e56. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2009.00449.x

Table 2.

FLAIR Scanning Parameters

1.5T 3T
Scanner Manufacturer Philips General Electric
Head Coil Quadrature Receive-only phased array
Number of Channels 4 8
Type of sequence 2D fast FLAIR 2D fast FLAIR
Field of View (cm) 24×24 25×25
Matrix Size 256×256 256×256
Slice Thickness (mm) (no gap) 2 2
TR (msec) 10000 9000
TE (msec) 125 157
Inversion Time (msec) 2700 2250
NSA 3 1
Flip Angle 90 90
Pixel Size (mm) 0.938×0.938×2 0.976×0.976×2
Scan Time (minutes) 8.2 9.1

Key; FLAIR= Fluid attenuated inversion recovery, TE=repetition time, TE=echo time