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. 2015 Oct 30;10(10):e0141151. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141151

Fig 7. Diffusion (DTI) color-coded fractional anisotropy (FA) maps.

Fig 7

The FA maps compare a central sagittal slice for the standard single-band diffusion pulse sequence (panel A) with our SMS sequence using Fourier, SLR and wavelet-optimized refocusing pulses (panels B, C and D). The customized SMS pulse sequence, after reconstruction, yields comparable results the standard sequence (panel A) acquired without slice acceleration. The scan parameters included a 4.0 sec TR, 73.2 ms TE, 30 DTI directions and b = 1000 s/mm2. The color-coding scheme denotes the principal diffusion direction as red for left-right, green for anterior-posterior, and blue for superior-inferior. The level of brightness represents the magnitude of the FA value.