Hi Houmran,

see my post from this morning - it depends on the acquisition (field strength, receive coil, resolution, etc...)

cheers Bruce On Sat, 29 May 2010, Houmran Ebrahimi wrote:

Hi,

We are planning to conduct a retrospective study on subjects that have only had 1 MP-RAGE run each. What will be the effect of running recon-all without motion correction? Is there any way of quantifying any possible error/variation? Will this be the same across the whole subject set?

For design of a future prospective study, we are limited in scanner time. How essential is it to have 2 or more runs per subject?

Thanks,

Houman

Dr Houman Ebrahimi BSc MBBS(Hons) Radiology Registrar John Hunter Hospital

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