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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2015 Aug 29;76(2):456–465. doi: 10.1002/mrm.25877

Table 1.

Comparison of T2 Values (in ms) Obtained for Water Phantoms Doped with MnCl2 Using the Reference 2D MESE Method and 3D FAST-T2 with COMP and mBIR-4 T2prep at Nominal and Reduced RF Amplitudes

MnCl2 Concentration Reference (MESE) mBIR-4 COMP
Nominal −10% −20% Nominal −10% −20%
1 mM 8.4 9.5 9.4 9.3 8.9 9.4 9.8
0.4 mM 21.6 22.4 22.2 22.0 22.3 22.3 20.3
0.2 mM 45.6 45.2 44.9 44.4 46.5 44.0 34.0
0.1 mM 82.6 81.2 80.9 80.3 83.9 72.2 47.9