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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Aug 8;67(5):1237–1251. doi: 10.1002/mrm.23101

Table 1.

The experiments performed in this study and the corresponding average edge strength (AES) values.

Coil type Acquisition
resolution
Motion
type
Motion
range
(no cor.)
Motion
range
(pros. cor.)
# Segments
for method 1
AES
no cor.
AES
pros. cor.
AES
pro&retro
method 1
AES
pro&retro
method 2
Subject 1 Birdcage head 192×192×96 Shaking 15.0° 10.5mm 19.1° 13.8mm 4 0.64±0.04 0.73±0.05 0.85±0.06 0.87±0.05
192×192×96 Nodding 10.6 ° 9.2mm 11.3° 7.1mm 3 0.70±0.06 0.74±0.06 0.89±0.06 0.89±0.06
Subject 2 Birdcage head 192×192×96 Shaking & Nodding 24.9 ° 88.6mm 26.5° 19.8mm 8 0.66±0.10 0.90±0.12 0.95±0.14* 0.99±0.15
192×192×96 Shaking & Nodding 24.9 ° 88.6mm 31.0° 20.1mm 10 0.66±0.10 0.72±0.10 0.85±0.12* 0.98±0.15
Subject 3 8ch head 192×192×96 Shaking 24.9 ° 19.6mm 23.8° 14.6mm 6 0.71±0.09 0.77±0.09 0.85±0.11 0.91±0.11
192×192×96 Shaking & Nodding 20.0 ° 12.2mm 18.4° 11.8mm 8 0.77±0.09 0.82±0.10 0.84±0.10* 0.92±0.11
Subject 4 8ch head 192×192×96 Shaking 25.0 ° 7.2mm 24.3° 5.6mm 4 0.65±0.02 0.64±0.03 0.70±0.03* 0.80±0.02
192×192×96 Shaking & Nodding 20.5 ° 8.4mm 23.7° 7.5mm 8 0.66±0.02 0.64±0.03 0.77±0.03 0.74±0.03
Subject 5 8ch head 192×192×96 Shaking 34.9 ° 14.0mm 40.6° 12.4mm 5 0.60±0.08 0.54±0.06 0.58±0.06* 0.64±0.06
192×192×96 Shaking & Nodding 34.6 ° 16.8mm 39.5° 17.9mm 11 0.68±0.07 0.71±0.06 0.72±0.07* 0.79±0.08
Subject 6 8ch head 256×256×192 Shaking 20.4° 12.4mm 12.6° 7.1mm 3 0.60±0.02 0.72±0.02 0.64±0.03* 0.88±0.03