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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2014 Apr 28;230:37–50. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.04.023

Table 1.

Summary of BIG scanning parameters.

Scanning parameter Variations across subjects
Station Name avanto (572), sonata (175), trio (56), triotim (657)
Sequence Name *tfl3d1 (16), *tfl3d1_ns (1101), spc3d1rr282ns (6), tfl3d1 (2), tfl3d1_ns (335)
Slice Thickness 0.8 (2), 0.84 (2), 0.87 (1), 0.91 (1), 1 (1453), 1.1 (1)
Repetition Time 1660 (3), 1960 (16), 2250 (645), 2300 (690), 2730 (100), 3200 (6)
Echo Time 2.02 (3), 2.86 (1), 2.92 (28), 2.94 (1), 2.95 (572), 2.96 (193), 2.99 (15), 3.03 (403), 3.04 (1), 3.08 (1), 3.11 (1), 3.13 (1), 3.55 (2), 3.68 (162), 3.93 (54), 4.01 (6), 4.43 (9), 4.58 (4), 5.59 (3)
Inversion Time 1000 (100), 1100 (704), 750 (3), 850 (645), 900 (2), null (6)
Number Of Averages 1 (1457), 2 (3)
Magnetic Field Strength 1.494 (112), 1.5 (635), 2.89362 (56), 3 (657)
Number Of Phase Encoding Steps 176 (3), 196 (6), 253 (5), 255 (658), 256 (786), 320 (2)
Percent Phase Field Of View 100 (1441), 68.75 (3), 81.25 (16)
Pixel B and width 130 (714), 140 (735), 240 (2), 260 (3), 751 (6)
Transmitting Coil body (1259), cp_head (53), txrx_head (148)
Acquisition Matrix [0 256 176 0] (3),[ 0 256 208 0] (16), [0 256 256 0] (1433), [0 256 258 0] (6), [0 320 320 0] (2)
Flip Angle 120 (6), 15 (645), 7 (100), 8 (707), 9 (2)
Pixel Spacing [0.5 0.5] (17), [0.8 0.8] (2), [1.0 1.0] (1440), [1.1 1.1] (1)
L Accel Fact PE 1 (787), 2 (662), 3 (3), 4 (5), null (3)
tcoil ID/Receiving Coil 32ch_head (281), 8ch_head (667), body (1), cp_head (430), headmatrix (78), null (3)

Note: Each scanning setting is followed by the number of subjects that were scanned using this setting. Scanning parameters with small variations across the subjects (displayed in gray) were excluded from the subsequent analysis.