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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2015 Sep 12;76(3):792–802. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25920

Table 5.

Results of simulations in the rat brain. The RMSE in T1 estimates (units of s) are given for each angle set and SNR. RMSE % change is in comparison to optimal angle set for that same number of flip angles.

Nα = 2 Nα = 10
SNR Optimal
angle set		 Control angle set Optimal
angle set		 10-point repeat 10-point range
RMSE RMSE %
change		 RMSE RMSE %
change		 RMSE %
change
5 1.93E-1 1.98E-1 +2.59 7.31E-2 7.16E-2 −2.05 1.20E-1 +64.2
10 8.47E-2 8.29E-2 −2.13 3.66E-2 3.56E-2 −2.73 5.94E-2 +62.3
15 5.54E-2 5.40E-2 −2.53 2.44E-2 2.37E-2 −2.87 3.96E-2 +62.3
20 4.13E-2 4.01E-2 −2.91 1.83E-2 1.77E-2 −3.28 2.97E-2 +62.3
30 2.74E-2 2.66E-2 −2.92 1.22E-2 1.18E-2 −3.28 1.99E-2 +63.1
40 2.05E-2 1.99E-2 −2.93 9.14E-3 8.87E-3 −2.95 1.49E-2 +63.0