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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 17;91:12–20. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.014

Table 1.

Definition of the anterior, middle and posterior brain fields of excitation (FOEs), and the SNR of non-diffusion weighted images from these FOEs.

Field of Excitation (FOE) Anterior Middle Posterior
FOE width & height (mm) 8 x 5 8 x 5 8 x 5
FOV size (readout x phase x slice) (mm) 9.6 x 5.6 x 4 9.6 x 5.6 x 4 9.6 x 5.6 x 4
Readout direction Superior-inferior Superior-inferior Left-right
Slice position with respect to Bregma (mm) +2 to −2 0 to −4 −5 to −9
Structures of interest Motor/Sensory cortex Striatum (right hemisphere) Sensory/visual cortex Hippocampus (right hemisphere) Cerebellum
SNR of non-diffusion image 42 ± 0.6 (n=5) 44 ± 2 (n=5) 42 ± 2.6 (n=3)