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

Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jul 12;34(3):585–594. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22713

Table 1.

Sequence parameters for imaging during the dynamic phase and extended time course (sequence 1) and flip angle optimization (sequence 2)

	Sequence 1	Sequence 2
Parallel Imaging?	no	yes
Type of parallel imaging [acceleration factor]	n/a	ARC (25) [R=3.56]
main purpose	dynamic phase & time course imaging	flip angle optimization high resolution imaging
parameters to evaluate	SNR, CNR	CNR_rel relative contrast-to-noise
sequence type	3D SPGR (LAVA)	3D SPGR (LAVA)
fat saturation	periodic spectrally-selective partial inversion	periodic spectrally-selective partial inversion
excitation	axial slab excitation	axial slab excitation
FA	15°	5° steps from 10°–45°
TR	4.1 ms	5.4–5.5 ms
TE	1.8 ms	2.1 ms
matrix	256 × 192	288 × 224
FOV	400 × 320	400 × 320
BW	±62.5 kHz	±62.5 kHz
slices	80	192
slice thickness	5 mm	2 mm
true spatial resolution	1.6 × 2.1 × 5 mm³	1.4 × 1.8 × 2.0 mm³
interpolated spatial resolution	0.8 × 0.8 × 2.5 mm³	0.8 × 0.8 × 1.0 mm³