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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2014 Dec 4;42(2):269–279. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24802

TABLE 1. Acquisition Parameters for Single- and Multi-echo Sequencesa.

3D SWI 3D TOF-MRA 3D Multi-echo MRA/SWI
Slice thickness 2 mm 1 mm 1 mm
Slab thickness 1 slab 3 slabs 3 slabs
36 slice 30 slices/slab 36 slices /slab
6 overlapping slices 12 overlapping slices
Bandwidth 15.25 kHz 41.76 kHz 41.76 kHz
K-Space coverage Full Partial (65%) Partial (65%)
TR 50 ms 30 ms 40 ms
TE(s) 16 ms 2.7 ms 2.7, 10.5, 13.2, 20.9 ms
Acquisition time 4 mins/50 s 6 mins/40 s 10 mins/36 s
a

Parameters that are the same to all 3 sequences: FOV 24 cm, flip angle 25°, acquisition matrix 512 × 384, in-plane resolution 0.46 × 0.63 mm2, and acceleration factor 3.