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Table 1 4D flow pulse sequence parameters

From: Cardiovascular 4D velocity mapping accelerated with k-t BLAST at 3.0 Tesla: 8-channel vs. 32-channel coil arrays

Sequence

Nav

Acquisition time (mins)

Filesize on database (GBs)

Analysis time (mins)

Image quality

4D SENSE (8)

Y

4.2 (25.2 nav)

0.4

40

16.3 ± 7.4

4D SENSE (32)

Y

4.2 (25.2 nav)

1.1

40

22 ± 6.3

4D K-t BLAST (8)

N

5.5

0.2

40

30.2 ± 4.2

4D K-t BLAST (32)

N

5.5

0.7

40

42.2 ± 3.6

2D SENSE

N

8

0.06

40

14.3 ± 7.4