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. 2022 Mar 25;23(6):e13586. doi: 10.1002/acm2.13586

TABLE 4.

Tolerance levels used in the Periodic Image Quality Test (PIQT) test that monitors spatial resolution

Imaging sequence Horizontal pixel (mm) Vertical pixel (mm)
MS‐MESE Echo 1: <1.3 Echo 1: <1.5
Echo 2: <1.3 Echo 2: <1.5

Note: Frequency encoding is in the horizontal direction, phase encoding is in the vertical direction.

Abbreviation: MS‐MESE, multi‐slice multi‐echo spin‐echo.