Table 1.

MRI acquisition parameters.

	STIR-TSE	T2-weighted TSE	T1-weighted 3D-DCE
TR (ms)	3800	6.300	4.4
TE (ms)	60	130	2.0
TI (ms)	165	––	––
FOV ((AP × RL  mm))	250 × 450	250 × 450	250 × 450 × 150 (FH)
Matrix size	168 × 300	336 × 600	168 × 300
Partitions	50	50	100
Slice thickness (mm)	3	3	1.5
Intersection gap	0	0	––
Signal avg.	3	3	––
Turbo factor	23	59	50
SENSE factor	––	1.7	1.6
Voxel size (mm3)	1.5 × 1.5 × 3.0	0.75 × 0.75 × 3.0	––