. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Apr;33(4):792–802. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22507

Table 1.

3D MRSI acquisition protocols that were considered in this study

	STANDARD	OCTAGONAL	AUTOSAT	AUTOSAT+ OCTAGONAL
Fixed ROI-edge sat bands	✓		✓
Manually prescribed sat bands	✓	✓
Octagonal selection		✓		✓
Automatically prescribed sat bands			✓	✓
FOV (cm)	16×16×16	16×16×16	18×18×16	18×18×16
Lactate Editing	✓	✓
TR	1104	1134	1500	1500
T_acq (min)	9	9	6.5	6.5
Slices in PRESS box	4	4	6	6

STANDARD = standard lactate edited MRSI, OCTAGONAL = lactate-edited MRSI with octagonal selection, AUTOSAT = MRSI with automatically generated sat band placement, AUTOSAT+OCTAGONAL = combination of automatic sat band placement and octagonal selection