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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2014 Feb 18;73(1):442–450. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25123

Table 2. Imaging parameters.

Parameters used for the three temperature mapping experiments.

Imaging parameters Temperature imaging calibration Birdcage coil heating Local RF coil heating
Sequence 3D GRE 3D GRE 3D multi-echo GRE
TR [ms]/ TE1,TE2...[ms] 10 / 3 11/ 4.2 11/ 2.5, 4.17, 5.84, 7.51
Resolution [mm] 2×2×2 5×5×5 5×5×5
Encoding matrix 64×64×24 48×48×40 48×48×40
Bandwidth [kHz] 75.8 76.9 76.9
Number of averages 5 5 10
Total acquisition time [s] 75 106 211