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Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2015 Dec 31;34(7):1111–1120. doi: 10.1002/jor.23127

Table 1.

Details of the preparation block elements. AHP = adiabatic half-passage pulse, AFP = adiabatic full-passage pulse (HS1), CW = continuous wave, SL = spin-lock.

Param.	Preparation	Prep. parameter	Value of prep. parameter	Pulse power
T₁, T_1Gd	Change of TR in the readout sequence	TR	80, 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560, 5120 ms	-
T₂	Spin echo preparation	TE	4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 ms	-
CW-T_1ρ	+AHP, CW SL pulse, -AHP⁶⁴	SL pulse duration	0, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 ms	γB₁ = 1 kHz
Adiab. T_1ρ	Train of AFPs²⁰	# AFPs	[0, 4, 8, 12, 24] × 4.5 ms	γB_1,max = 2.5 kHz
Adiab. T_2ρ	+AHP, train of AFPs, -AHP²⁰	# AFPs	[0, 4, 8, 12, 24] × 4.5 ms	γB_1,max = 2.5 kHz
T_RAFF2	RAFF2 pulse train^{23; 27}	# RAFF2 pulses	[0, 2, 4, 6] × 9 ms	γB_1,max = 625 Hz
MTR, T_1sat	CW saturation at -100 kHz and +10 kHz offset from water frequency, both with and without preceding 180° pulse²⁴	Saturation duration	0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, 1.6, 3.5, 7 s	γB₁ = 250 Hz