. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2014 Aug 27;74(2):537–543. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25437

Table 1.

Sensitivity of ¹⁹F MR Acquisition Techniques

PFOB Line(s)	¹⁹F Sequence	Sensitivity (μmol_PFOB⁻¹min^−1/2)^a
CF3	Cartesian fast spin-echo	7

(CF₂)₆	Cartesian gradient-echo (α=30°)	12
	Cartesian fast spin-echo	16
	Cartesian balanced SSFP (α=30°)	23
	Radial UTE gradient-echo (α=5°)	8
	Radial UTE gradient-echo (α=30°)	20
	Radial balanced UTE-SSFP (α=30°)	51

Sensitivity measured as S = SNR×(mol/voxel)⁻¹×T_exp^−1/2, where SNR is the achieved signal-to-noise ratio, T_exp the sequence duration, and (mol/voxel) the amount of PFOB agent within an imaging voxel.