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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2020 Jul 6;33(9):e4348. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4348

Table 3.

Optimal b-values (in s/mm2) for each shell and corresponding number of directions (Ntotal), expressed as a percentage of the total number of volumes acquired. Results are shown for the 2-shell, 3-shell and 4-shell cases, assuming a T 2 value of 150 ms


2 shells b-value 0 395 1781
Ntotal 12% 29% 59%

3 shells b-value 0 404 990 2574
Ntotal 6% 19% 28%  47%

4 shells b-value 0 405 990 1901 3784
Ntotal 3%   9% 16%  29%  43%