Values of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient and Lesion-to-Spinal Cord Signal Intensity in Diagnosing Solitary Pulmonary Lesions: Turbo Spin-Echo versus Echo-Planar Imaging Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Table 1

Scanning parameters of magnetic resonance imaging.

	TSE-T2WI	EPI-DWI	TSE-DWI
TR (ms)	973	1238	5965
TE (ms)	80	51	56
NSA	1	4	4
FOV (mm)
Slice thickness (mm)	7	5	5
Gap (mm)	0.7	0.5	1
value (s/mm^2)	—	600	600
Parallel imaging factor	2	3	3
Matrix
BW (Hz/pixel)	565.2	43.5	371.4
Recon voxel size (mm)	0.67	1.1	1.1
Scanning time	23 s	36 s	2 min 47 s

Note: TE: echo time; TR: repetition time; NSA: number of signals acquired; FOV: field of view; m: minutes; s: seconds; BW: bandwidth.