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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2017 Feb 2;46(1):24–39. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25577

Table 2.

Suggested Protocol for Scanning to Total Hip Arthroplasty at 1.5T

Pulse Sequence
Parameters Axial Axial Coronal Sagittal Coronal Coronal
Acquisition Type FSE FSE FSE FSE MAVRIC-SL MAVRIC-SL
Anatomy Whole Pelvis Hip Arthroplasty Hip Arthroplasty Hip Arthroplasty Whole Pelvis Whole Pelvis
Weighting Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate STIR
Repetition Time (ms) 4000–5000 4000–5000 4000–5000 4000–5000 4000–5000 4000–5000
Echo Time (ms) 24–34 24–34 24–34 24–34 40 40
Fat Suppression No No No No No Inversion pulse at 150 ms
Echo Train Length 16–24 16–24 16–24 16–24 24 24
Receiver Bandwidth (Hz/pixel) 488.3 488.3 488.3 488.3 488.3 488.3
Flip Angle (deg) 90 90 90 90 90 90
Field of View (cm) 36 × 36 26 × 26 26 × 26 26 × 26 44 × 44 44 × 44
Acquisition Matrix 512 × 256 512 × 256 512 × 320 512 × 320 512 × 256 512 × 256
Slice Thickness (mm) 5 4 4 2.5 3.6 3.6
Section Gap (mm) 0 0 0 0 0 0
No. Signals Acquired 3 4–5 5 4 Variable Variable
In-plane Frequency Direction S to I S to I R to L A to P S to I S to I
Acquisition Time 5–8 mins 5–8 mins 5–8 mins 5–8 mins 5–7 mins 4–8 mins

Notes: A = Anterior, P = Posterior, R = Right, L = Left, S = Superior, I = Inferior