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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2018 Jul 19;81(1):167–181. doi: 10.1002/mrm.27358

Table 1.

Phantom imaging protocol

IR FSE
(Reference T1 mapping)
(15min24s)		 FOV = 28cm × 28cm, In-plane resolution = 1.1mm × 1.75 mm
Slice thickness = 6mm, Average = 1, Bandwidth = ±15.63kHz, TR=6s
TI = [50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180] ms
Multi-TE SE
(Reference T2 mapping)
(18min18s)		 FOV = 28cm × 28cm, In-plane resolution = 2.2mm × 2.2 mm
Parallel imaging factor = 2, Slice thickness = 6mm,
Bandwidth = ±62.5kHz, TR=2s
TE = [20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 140, 160, 180, 200] ms
SE-DWI
(Reference ADC mapping)
(2min02s)		 FOV = 28cm × 28cm, In-plane resolution = 2.2mm × 2.2 mm
Parallel imaging factor = 2, Slice thickness = 6mm,
Bandwidth = ±62.5kHz, TR=2s,
Diffusion direction = three orthogonal diffusion directions (x, y, and z),
b = [20, 50, 100(2), 300(4), 500(6), 800(6)] s/mm2
STEM
(8min08s)		 TM = 25ms, TE = 49.04ms FOV = 28cm × 28cm,
In-plane resolution = 2.2mm × 2.2 mm
Parallel imaging factor = 2,
Slice thickness = 6mm,
Bandwidth = ±62.5kHz, TR=2s
Same diffusion directions and b-values as SE-DWI
TM = 100ms, TE = 39.84ms
TM = 100ms, TE = 100ms
TM = 200ms, TE = 36.34ms