Table 1 Imaging techniques and settings
| Imaging technique | Sequence | Orientation | Matrix |
TR (ms) | TE (ms) |
ST (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRI | T1w | 3D | 1024 | 8.5 | 3.9 | 0.9 |
| T2w | transverse | 1024 | 4500 | 80 | 3.1 | |
| T2w | dorsal | 1024 | 3000 | 80 | 4 | |
| PDw | dorsal | 1024 | 6400 | 30 | 4 | |
| STIR | transverse | 960 | 8872 | 30 | 3 | |
| CT | Helical Scan | transverse | 1024 | 1.5 | ||