Table 1 MRI acquisition parameters (*values in parentheses apply only to phantom acquisitions).

From: Temporal Signal-to-Noise Changes in Combined Multislice- and In-Plane-Accelerated Echo-Planar Imaging with a 20- and 64-Channel Coil

Parameters

Sequences

T2* EPI

T1

Repetition time (ms)

4800

1910

Echo time (ms)

30

3.67

Flip angle (°)

55

9

Excitation pulse duration (ms)

9

Echo spacing (ms)

0.58

Bandwidth (Hz/pixel)

2368

180

Acquisition matrix

96 × 96

256 × 256

Field of view (mm)

192 × 192

250 × 250

Voxel resolution (mm)

2 × 2 × 2

0.9766 × 0.9766 × 1

Partial Fourier

6/8

Multislice acceleration factors

1, 2, 4, 6, 8 (10, 12)*

In-plane acceleration factors

1, 2

2