Table 3.
Types of pulse sequences typically used for imaging of respective anatomical areas
| Scan location | Scan sequences |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAIR | DWI | FLASH | FSE | HASTE | SE | STIR | TrueFISP | |
| Brain | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Heart | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Cervical Spine | X | X | ||||||
| Knee | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Lumbar Spine | Xa | X | ||||||
FLAIR, fluid attenuated inversion recovery; DWI, diffusion weighted imaging; FLASH, fast low angle shot; FSE, fast spin echo; HASTE, half acquisition single-shot turbo spin echo; SE, spin echo; STIR, short Tau inversion recovery; TrueFISP, true fast imaging with steady-state precession.
aFSE sequence caused heating in subjects with a thermistor probe during lumbar spine examination (see the text for details).