Thanks for your answers!
Following your comments, I have thought to select only first two sequences, as they are the more frequent in our database and only differ on the TE parameter. We will also create balanced groups.
cheers Daniel
2012/8/18 Andre van der Kouwe andre@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Hi Daniel,
I agree, those flip angle differences are quite big and would make a difference to contrast. I suspect gray/white contrast is better for the higher TI and lower flip angles in those scans (and they could benefit from longer TR). So if you have a balanced study/control group it's ok but I wouldn't compare subjects with systematically different protocols like those below.
Cheers,
Andre.
Bruce Fischl wrote:
Hi Daniel
those are pretty big differences in flip angle. I'll cc Andre van der Kouwe on this so he can comment, but I would be hesitant. The increased TE will have a big effect on dura (darkening it), but will also reduce gray/white contrast.
cheers Bruce
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Daniel Ferreira wrote:
Dear all,
We are designing a study based on clinical data. We want to work with a MPRAGE sequence but subjects have been given 4 different sets of parameters:
- TR: 1900; TE: 4,38; TI: 1100; flip angle: 15
- TR: 1900; TE: 3,55; TI: 1100; flip angle: 15
- TR: 1900; TE: 3,39; TI: 900; flip angle: 9
- TR: 1900; TE: 3,39; TI: 900; flip angle: 15
I wonder how these differences could affect the images and thus the results. Can I combine all of them or at least some of them? Are they so different that I should just study them by separate?
thank you very much on advance
Daniel Ferreira
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