Table 1 Imaging parameters of the Steady State Free Precession pulse sequence used to acquire the magnetic resonance image series, based on the pulse sequence identified by Scott et al.15 as being optimal for vocal tract image quality.

From: Real-time speech MRI datasets with corresponding articulator ground-truth segmentations

Parameter

Value

TR (ms)

2.0

TE (ms)

0.9

Flip angle (°)

15

Acquired/reconstructed matrix size

120 × 93/256 × 256

Acquired/reconstructed in-plane pixel size (mm2)

2.5 × 2.45/1.17 × 1.17

Slice thickness (mm)

10

Field of view (mm2)

300 × 230

Philips sequence name

FFE

SENSE factor

2

NSA

1

Actual WFS (pixel)/BW (Hz)

0.134/3240.4

  1. Abbreviations are: repetition time, TR; echo time, TE; Fast Field Echo, FFE; sensitivity encoding, SENSE; number of signal averages, NSA; water fat shift, WFS; and bandwidth, BW.
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