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Table 1 Scan sequences

From: COMPULS: design of a multicenter phenotypic, cognitive, genetic, and magnetic resonance imaging study in children with compulsive syndromes

Sequence

Site

TR/TE/TI (ms)

Flip angle

Field of view (mm)

Matrix RL/AP/slices

Voxel-size (mm)

Gap (%)

Parallel Imaging

b value

Directions/b0’s

Averages Water suppressed/unsuppressed

T1

Nijmegen (Siemens)

2300*/2.98/900

9

256

212/256/176

1.0 * 1.0 * 1.2

NA

2

NA

NA

NA

 

Mannheim (Siemens)

2300*/2.98/900

9

270

212/254/176

1.1 * 1.1 * 1.2

NA

2

NA

NA

NA

 

Utrecht (Philips)

6.8*/3.10/823

9

270

204/252/170

1.1 * 1.1 * 1.2

NA

1.8

NA

NA

NA

 

London (GE)

7.31*/3.02/400

11

270

256/256/196

1.1 * 1.1 * 1.2

NA

1.75

NA

NA

NA

MRS

PRESS

All

3000/30/-

NA

NA

NA

20 * 20* 20

NA

NA

NA

NA

96/16

R-FMRI#

All

2300/12a–13b/-

80

240

240/240/33

3.8 * 3.8 * 3.8

11

2 – 2.5c

NA

NA

NA

Functional tasks

All

2070/35/-

74

192

192/192/36

3.0 * 3.0 * 3.0

13

2

NA

NA

NA

DTI

All

12000/103/-

90

256

256/256/72

2.0 * 2.0 * 2.0

0

2

1500

60/2

NA

  1. *As provided by the manufacturer. Philips and GE define a TR as the time an excitation pulse is given, while Siemens defines TR as the time between inversion recovery pulses a volume
  2. #Multi-echo resting state fMRI: TE2 is 31 ms for London and Utrecht, 29 for Mannheim and 28.41 for Nijmegen. TE3 is 48 for London, 49 for Utrecht, 46 for Mannheim and 44.82 for Nijmegen
  3. aNijmegen, Mannheim
  4. bUtrecht, London
  5. cUtrecht