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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2012 Dec 4;70(5):1360–1368. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24564

Table 1.

Comparison of Tip-down and Tip-up Configurations of the Proposed T2-prep Module.

Module Configurations Image Inhomogeneity (CV± SEM) P-value (comparison with first configuration)
Tip-Down Tip-Up Number of Refocusing Pulses
Rect Rect 4 0.357 ± 0.006 --
Rect rAHP 4 0.403 ± 0.025 0.150
Rect BIR-4 4 0.416 ± 0.035 0.007
AHP Rect 4 0.413 ± 0.007 0.068
AHP rAHP 4 0.422 ± 0.023 0.111