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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Imaging Radiat Sci. 2018 Mar 28;49(2):153–163. doi: 10.1016/j.jmir.2018.02.054

Table 1.

Departmental site-specific imaging protocols

Site Receiver coil* Typical FOV (mm3) Protocol Typical intrinsic resolution (mm3) Typical band width (Hz/pixel) Typical scan time (min) Typical TR/TE (ms) Typical flip angle (degrees) Typical SENSE factor
Large FOV Small FOV Large FOV Small FOV Large FOV Small FOV
Brain w/ immobilization devices Flex L Flex M 250×200×200 220×180×180 3D T2 TSE 1.0×1.0×2.0 0.9×0.9×1.8 936 5.2 2500/229 90 2.0 × 1.2
3D T1 TFE 455 6.3 8.0/3.5 8 1.1 × 1.1
3D T2 FLAIR w/ SPIR 1.2×1.2×2.0 1.2×1.2×2.0 1092 6.4 4800/316 40 2.3 × 1.1
Brain w/o immobilization devices Standard head or 32-channel head 250×2 00×200 3D T2 TSE 0.8×0.8×1.7 797 5.5 2500/259 90 2.9 × 1.1
3D T1 TFE 0.9×0.9×1.8 456 3.9 8.0/3.5 8 2.0 × 1.0
3D T2 FLAIR w/ SPIR 1.0×.0×2.0 936 5.4 4800/354 90 3.0 × 1.1
3D TOF MRA 0.4×0.6×1.2 108 5.1 23/3.5 18 2.5 × 1.0
2D TSE DWI w/ SPIR 2.0×2.0×4.0 704 4.9 14783/71 90 2.0 × 1.0
2D EPI DTI w/ SPIR 2.4×2.5×2.5 32 6 2854/84 90 2.0 × 1.0
2D PCASL w/ SPIR 2.7×2.7×5.0 41 4.3 4120/16 90 2.3 × 1.0
3D SWI 0.6×0.6×2.0 255 4.5 31/7.2 17 2.0 × 1.3
Head and neck Head-neck or anterior 260×330×330 3D T2 TSE 1.1×1.1×2.2 841 6 2000/213 40 3.0 × 1.2
3D T1 TFE 457 5.6 6.6/3.2 8 3.5 × 1.0
3D T1 FFE w/ SPAIR 1.2×1.2×2.4 721 5.2 3.7/1.87 10 2.8 x 1.0
2D T2 w/ mDIXON 1.2×1.2×4.0 461 5.3 2814/100 90 2.0 × 1.0
Cervical spine Flex L Flex M 250×320×250 200×250×200 3D T2 TSE 1.1×1.1×2.2 1.0×1.0×2.0 1034 5.7 2500/227 90 2.0 × 1.0
3D T1 TFE 455 6.4 8.0/3.5 8 2.5 × 1.0
Thoracic/lumbar spine Anterior 250×380×380 200×285×285 3D T2 TSE 1.1×1.1×2.2 1.0×1.0×2.0 870 6.6 2200/200 90 3.5 × 1.1
3D T1 TFE 455 5.6 7.6/4.2 8 3.2 × 1.0
Pelvis Anterior 280×440×280 250×310×250 3D T2 TSE w/ or w/o SPAIR or mDIXON 1.3×1.3×2.6 1.2×1.2×2.4 804 5.5 2200/250 90 3.8 × 1.0
3D T1 FFE w/ or w/o SPAIR or mDIXON 457 5 7.5/4.2 8 3.5 × 1.0
280×440×250 250×310×200 2D DWI w/ SPIR 3.0×3.0×5.0 3.0×3.0×4.0 38 3.4 4906/71 90 2.0 × 1.0
Abdomen Anterior 310×390×280 200×300×270 3D T2 TSE NAV 1.3×1.3×2.6 1.1×1.1×2.2 792 6.1 2200/250 90 3.0 × 1.1
3D T1 TFE NAV 481 5.8 10/4.6 25 2.5 × 1.0
2D T2 TSE NAV w/ or w/o SPAIR 1.5×1.7×4.0 1.3×1.6×4.0 490 2.3 1000/80 90 2.5 × 1.0
340×340×240 300×300×200 2D T2 MV SPIR w/ or w/o RespTrig 1.4×1.4×4.0 1.4×1.4×4.0 1272 5.0 2725/78 90 2.0 × 1.0
310×390×200 200×300×190 2D DWI SPIR w/ NAV or RespTrig 2.7×2.7×5.0 2.7×2.7×4.0 32 6.3 2657/77 90 2.5 × 1.0
350×350×200 300×300×160 4D MRI (slicewise dynamic 2D bFFE) 1.8×1.8×4.0 1.8×1.8×4.0 1012 19.2 3.2/1.6 70 2.0 × 1.0
Extremity Flex S/M/L or anterior 300×300×350 250×250×250 3D T2 TSE w/ or w/o SPAIR 1.3×1.3×2.6 1.1×1.1×2.2 700 5.8 2000/250 90 3.0 × 1.1
3D T1 TFE 454 5.6 22/2.4 30 2.5 × 1.0
2D T2 w/ or w/o SPAIR 1.0×1.0×5.0 1.0×1.0×5.0 296 4.3 8082/65 90 None
2D T1 mDIXON 382 4.4 657/20 90 2.5 × 1.0
*

Posterior coil is engaged by default.

Axial acquisition unless otherwise noted.

The intrinsic slice thickness in 3D imaging is reconstructed to half of the acquired value by the “overcontiguous slices” algorithm to give an isotropic voxel size.

2D, 2-dimensional slice-wise imaging; 3D, three-dimensional imaging; bFFE, balanced fast field echo; DTI, diffusion tensor imaging; DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; EPI, echo planar imaging; FFE, fast field echo; FLAIR, fluid-attenuated inversion recovery; Flex S/M/L, flexible loop coils of small, medium, and large sizes; FOV, field of view; mDIXON, multi-point Dixon method of fat suppression; MV, MultiVane k-space sampling method; NAV, triggering by navigator pulse; PCASL, pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling; RespTrig, triggering by respiratory bellows; SPAIR, spectral attenuated inversion recovery; SPIR, spectral pre-saturation with inversion recovery; SWI, susceptibility-weighted imaging; T1, T1-weighted imaging; T2, T2-weighted imaging; TFE, turbo field echo; TOF MRA, time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography; TSE, turbo spin echo; w/, with; w/o, without.

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