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. 2016 Sep 7;89(1066):20160150. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20160150

Table 1.

MRI scan parameters

Parameters CAIPIRINHA-VIBE KWIC-Radial-VIBE c-VIBE
Repetition time (ms) 3.8 3.7 3.2
Echo time (ms) 1.6 1.4 1.1
Field of view (mm2) 380 × 380 380 × 380 380 × 380
Flip angle (°) 25 25 25
Slice thickness (mm) 4 4 4
Matrix 256 × 256 256 × 256 256 × 256
Bandwidth (kHz) 890 1300 810
Number of excitation 1 1 1
Acceleration factor 2 × 2 None 2
Acquisition time (s) 305 305 305

CAIPIRINHA-VIBE, controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration with volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination; c-VIBE, conventional-VIBE; KWIC-Radial-VIBE, radial-VIBE with k-space-weighted image contrast reconstruction.