Table 2 The flexibility of FaBiAN is illustrated by the number of sequence parameters and settings available to the user.

GA (weeks)

21–33

21–35

Magnetic field strength

1.5 T

1.5 T or 3 T

Field inhomogeneities

20% INU level provided by BrainWeb^63,64 for T2w images

Acquisition parameters

Contrast

 Effective echo time (ms)

90

116.256–123.60

 Echo spacing (ms)

4.08

10

 Echo train length

224

224

 Excitation flip angle (°)

90

90

 Refocusing pulse flip angle (°)

180

180

Geometry

 Slice orientation

Sagittal, coronal or transverse

Sagittal, coronal or transverse

 Slice thickness (mm)

3

3–4

 Slice gap (mm)

0.3

0

 Number of slices

45–46

37–51

 Phase oversampling (%)

80

0

 Shift of the field-of-view (mm)

\(\pm\,\, 1.6\)

\(\pm\,\, 1.6\)

Resolution

 Field-of-view (mm\(^2\))

\(360 \times 360\)

\(240 \times 240{-}300 \times 300\)

 Base resolution (voxels)

320–327

256

 Phase resolution (%)

70

100

 Reconstruction matrix

\(320 \times 404 {- 327 \times 414}\)

\(512 \times 512\)

 Zero-interpolation filling

–

Yes

Acceleration technique

 Reference lines

42

–

 Acceleration factor

2

−

Amplitude of 3D rigid motion

Little motion

 Translation (mm) in x

\(\pm\, 1\)

\(\pm\, 1\)

 Translation (mm) in y

\(\pm\, 1\)

\(\pm\, 1\)

 Translation (mm) in z

\(\pm\, 1\)

\(\pm\, 1\)

 3D rotation (\(^\circ\))

\(\pm\, 2\)

\(\pm\, 2\)

Moderate motion

 Translation (mm) in x

\(\pm\, 3\)

\(\pm\, 3\)

 Translation (mm) in y

\(\pm\, 3\)

\(\pm\, 3\)

 Translation (mm) in z

\(\pm\, 3\)

\(\pm\, 3\)

 3D rotation (\(^\circ\))

\(\pm\, 5\)

\(\pm\, 5\)

Strong motion

 Translation (mm) in x

\(\pm\, 4\)

\(\pm\, 4\)

 Translation (mm) in y

\(\pm\, 4\)

\(\pm\, 4\)

 Translation (mm) in z

\(\pm\, 4\)

\(\pm\, 4\)

 3D rotation (\(^\circ\))

\(\pm\, 8\)

\(\pm\, 8\)

Noise

 Mean

0

0

 Standard deviation

0.15

0.01