. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Jun 12;69(4):920–930. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24339

Table 1.

3D MRSI acquisition protocols that were considered in this study: MANUAL = MRSI with manual prescription, AUTOSAT = MRSI with automatically generated saturation band placement, AUTO MRSI = automated oblique PRESS box and saturation band placement.

	MANUAL	AUTOSAT	AUTO MRSI
Scan Plane	axial	axial	axial-oblique
Automated PRESS box placement			✓
Fixed ROI-edge saturation bands	✓
Manually prescribed saturation bands	✓
Automatically prescribed saturation bands		✓	✓
Octagonal selection		✓	✓
FOV (cm)	16×16×16	18×18×16	18×18×16
TR (ms)	1104	1500	1140
T_acq (min)	9	13	13