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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Dec 21;49(6):1694–1703. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26555

Table 1.

Multiparametric MR imaging sequence parameters at 3T.

Parameter T2 Weighted DWIa High b-Value
DWIb 		DCE MR
Imagingc
Field of view (mm) 140 × 140 140 × 140 140 × 140 262 × 262
Acquisition matrix 304 × 234 112 × 109 76 × 78 188 × 96
Repetition time (msec) 4434 4986 6987 3.7
Echo time (msec) 120 54 52 2.3
Flip angle (degrees) 90 90 90 8.5
Section thickness (mm), no gaps 3 3 3 3
Image reconstruction matrix (pixels) 512 × 512 256 × 256 256 × 256 256 × 256
Reconstruction voxel imaging
resolution (mm/pixel)		 0.27 × 0.27 ×
3.00		 0.55 × 0.55 ×
2.73		 0.55 × 0.55 ×
2.73		 1.02 × 1.02 ×
3.00
Time for acquisition (min:sec) 2:48 4:54 3:50 5:16
a

For ADC map calculation. Five evenly-spaced b values (0–750 sec/mm2) were used.

b

b= 2000 sec/mm2

c

DCE images obtained before, during, and after a single dose of gadopentetate dimeglumine 0.1 mmol/kg at 3 mL/sec. Each sequence obtained at 5.6 -sec intervals.