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Published in final edited form as: Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2016 Mar 31;54(4):408–422. doi: 10.1597/15-120

Table 2:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Protocol, 3 Tesla

	Static Three-Dimensional MRI Parameters	Dynamic MRI Parameters
Pulse sequence^*	SPACE: T2 turbo spin echo. variable flip angle	FLASH: gradient echo sequence (GRE) six-shot spiral
Field of view	256 × 192 × 153.6 mm³	240 × 240 × 8 mm³
Repetition time	2500 ms	9 ms
Echo time	268 ms Echo train length: 171	Alternating between 1.3 and 1.8 ms
Resolution	0.8 mm isotropic	1.875 × 1.875 × 8 mm³
Length of scan	4 minutes and 52 seconds for 1 static volume	50.5 seconds for 799 native frame rate images or 1515 sliding window images at 30 frames per second

SPACE = sampling perfection with application optimized contrasts using different flip angle evolution; FLASH = Fast low-angle shot imaging.