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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2011 Oct 21;31(2):265–275. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2011.2168235

TABLE I.

Fractional signal losses between different encoding and refocusing methods shown in Fig. 3. The values were obtained by normalized integration of the magnetization profiles.

	M_enc	M_final 90° (XY)	M_final super-STE 90° (XY)	M_final STEP (Z)
90-90	0.64	0.50	0.63	0.50
Ideal super-STE	1	0.64	1	1
SLR super-STE	0.91	0.62	0.86	0.86
sech super-STE	0.86	0.61	0.83	0.80