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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jul;34(1):231–238. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22593

Table 1.

b-SSFP Parameters Used to Optimize the Simultaneous Detection of Iron-Labeled Cells and Brain Metastases

TR(ms) FA(°) rBW(6kHz) NEX
6 35 21 8
16 35 21 3
26 35 21 2
26 10 21 2
26 35 21 2
26 50 21 2
26 35 6 2
26 35 21 2
26 35 41 2

For each sets of experiments, only one parameter was changed: repetition time (TR), or flip angle (FA), or reception bandwidth (rBW). Furthermore, for the first set of experiments, as TR was modified the number of averages (NEX) was decreased in order to maintain an acquisition time of 40 minutes.