TABLE 1

Acquisition Parameters

MR parametersMRAC Dixon ACMRAC UTE ACMPRAGE
Acquisition time (min)00:1901:4004:45
Voxel size (mm)2.6 × 2.6 × 3.121.6 × 1.6 × 1.61.1 × 1.1 × 1.2
OrientationCoronalTransverseSagittal
Slices per slab128192176
Matrix size192 × 126192 × 192256 × 256
Field of view (mm)500300270
Repetition time (ms)3.6011.942,100
First and second echo time (ms)1.23 and 2.460.07 and 2.462.95
Flip angle10.0°10.0°9.0
Parallel acquisition technique modeGRAPPA 2 (Siemens)NoneGRAPPA 2 (Siemens)
PET parameters
 Emission scan5 min
 Reconstruction iterations3
 Reconstruction subsets21
 Postreconstruction filterGaussian, 4 mm
 Number of slices127
 Matrix256 × 256
 OrientationTransverse
 Voxel size (mm)1.4 × 1.4 × 2.03
  • AC = attenuation correction; GRAPPA = generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition; MRAC = MR-based attenuation correction.