Table 1:

Acquisition parameters for MRA sequences

ParameterCE-MRA3D TOF-MRA
Receive coil12-Channel head and neck coil combination12-Channel head and neck coil combination
TR/TE (ms)3.28/1.2322/3.83
Flip angle33°18°
Acquisition planeCoronalAxial
FOV (mm)300 × 300200 × 200
Reconstructed voxel size (mm)0.9 × 0.7 × 0.80.7 × 0.5 × 0.6
Slice oversampling (%)9.120
No. of slices per slab8840
No. of slabs13
Slice thickness (mm)0.80.64
Partial Fourier (phase and slice directions)7/8 and 6/86/8 and 6/8
Total acquisition time64 sec3 min 7 sec