Table 4 Detailed imaging parameters of the Multiparametric Liver MRI1 protocol.

From: A preclinical CT and MRI Liver Imaging Dataset with Anatomical, Functional and Segmentation Data

Data type

Details (type of sequence)

T1-weighted gradient echo (w/o fat suppression, (FcFLASH))

- see T1wI

- water suppression prepulse 1030 Hz

- bandwidth, 70 kHz

T1 relaxometry (pre and post gadoxetic acid (RARE VTR))

- FOV, 40 × 40 mm2

- matrix, 112 × 112

- effective echo time, 12 ms

- repetition times (5500, 3000, 1500, 800, 400, 200 ms)

- echo spacing, 6 ms

- RARE factor 4

- resolution, 357 μm/pixel

- in-plane

- (axial) slice thickness, 1 mm with 0.25 mm slice gaps

- bandwidth, 75 kHz

dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (FLASH)

- FOV, 40 × 40 mm2

- matrix, 128 × 128

- effective echo time, 1296 ms

- repetition time, 4.4 ms

- resolution, 313 μm/pixel

- in-plane

- (axial) slice thickness, 1 mm without slice gaps

- bandwidth, 200 kHz

repetition of anatomical T1-weighted gradient echo (post gadoxetic acid (FcFLASH))

- see above

  1. General part and MRI2 are in Tables 3, 5, respectively.