Table 1.

This table provides all the parameters used in VFA-UTE-T₁ [7], UTE-Adiab-T_1ρ [12], and UTE-qMT [15]. Additional B₁ correction was performed using actual flip angle imaging (AFI) technique [28]. For qMT, a Fermi pulse was used for MT saturation.

	Sequence	UTE—T1	UTE—Adiab T1ρ	UTE—qMT
Parameters
TR (ms)		20	500	102.6
TE (ms)		0.032	0.032	0.032
FOV (cm3)		15 × 15 × 10.8	15 × 15 × 10.8	15 × 15 × 10.8
MT power (°)		-	-	500, 1500
Frequency offset (kHz)		-	-	2, 5, 10, 20, 50
Spin lock time (ms)		-	0, 24, 48, 96	-
Flip angle (°)		5, 15, 30	10	7
Matrix		256 × 256 × 32	256 × 256 × 32	256 × 256 × 32
Receiver bandwidth (kHz)		166	166	166
Scan time		6 min 8 s	8 min 54 s	9 min 38 s