Table 4. Whole Body MRI Protocol Including Coronal T2 Image in Asan Medical Center.
No. | Sequence (Total Scan Time, 33 min) | |
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1 | Whole body (vertex to knee): coronal, T2-WI, TSE DFS, 5 mm contiguous sectioning | |
2. | Whole spine: sagittal, T1-WI, TSE, section thickness 3.9 mm | |
3 | Whole spine: sagittal, FS T2-WI, section thickness 3.9 mm | |
4 | Whole body (vertex to knee): axial T1-WI, VIBE, FS Dixon. Section thickness 5 mm | |
Water only, fat only, in-phase, and opposed-phase sequences | ||
5 | Whole body: axial, DWEPI, 5 mm contiguous sectioning, two b-values (50 sec/mm2, 900 sec/mm2) | |
• ADC calculations with monoexponetial data fitting | ||
• 3D MIP reconstructions of highest b-value images | ||
6 | Brain: axial, T1-WI SE , FS, section thickness 5 mm |
ADC = apparent diffusion coefficient, DFS = Dixon-based fat saturated, DWEPI = diffusion-weighted echo planar image, FS = fat suppression, MIP = maximum intensity projection, SE = spin echo, TSE = turbo-spin echo, VIBE = volumetric interpolated breath-hold sequence, WI = weighted imaging