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Table 1 MRI parameters

From: A preliminary study of synthetic magnetic resonance imaging in rectal cancer: imaging quality and preoperative assessment

 

T1WI

T2WI

Synthetic MRI

DWI

DCE

Sequence

FSE

FSE

QRAPMASTER

SS-EPI

DISCO

Imaging plane

Axial

Oblique axial, oblique coronal, sagittal

Oblique axial

Axial

Axial

Repetition time (ms)

588

5115, 5912, 5062

4000

4574

4.8

Echo time (ms)

Min full

85.0, 98.8, 90.0

19.5/97.3

Minimum

2.0

Slice thickness/gap (mm)

5/1

3/0.3

3/0.3

5/1

2/0

Field of view (cm)

40 × 40

18 × 18, 24 × 24, 24 × 24

24 × 24

40 × 40

36 × 36

Matrix

320 × 256

320 × 224, 320 × 256, 320 × 224

320 × 256

128 × 128

288 × 192

Echo train length

3

24, 32, 24

16

Bandwidth (kHz)

50.00

50.00, 63.50, 50.00

27.78

250

142.86

Acquisition time (min: s)

0:57

02:39, 02:40, 2:37

04:32

01:36

Per phase 0:09

  1. MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; T1WI, T1-weighted imaging; T2WI, T2-weighted imaging; DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; DCE, dynamic contrast enhanced; FSE, fast spin-echo; QRAPMASTER, quantification of relaxation times and proton density by multiecho acquisition of a saturation recovery using turbo spin-echo readout; SS-EPI, single-shot echo-planar imaging; DISCO, differential sub-sampling with cartesian ordering