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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Feb 17;66(1):112–122. doi: 10.1002/mrm.22788

Table 2.

TNR estimation for scenarios involving different sequences and parameters.

Matrix Size Temporal
Resolution
Acceleration
Factor
Expected
TNR
Measured
TNR
a) Full-FOV SPGR
(2D)
192x192x1
1 average
7.68 s 1 1 1*
b) Proposed rFOV
method (2D)
192x8x1
1 average
0.32 s 24 0.20 0.18
c) Proposed rFOV
method (3D)
192x8x24
1 average
7.68 s 1 1 0.86
d) Full-FOV EPI
(ETL=4)
192x192x1
4 averages
7.68 s 1 1 0.95
*

Temperature noise of Full-FOV SPGR in a gel was 0.1°C.