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Table 1 Parameters of diffusion-weighted imaging, T1-weighted imaging, T2-weighted imaging, and VIBE sequence

Parameter	DWI	In/out of phase	T2-weighted imaging	VIBE
		T1-weighted imaging
Repetition time (ms)	5600	81	2160	3.95
Echo time (ms)	68	1.4	100	1.92
Field of view (mm2)	380 × 289	400 × 325	433 × 433	400 × 296
Scan matrix	100 × 76	352 × 286	320 × 20288	352 × 256
Slice thickness (mm)	6	6	6	2
Slice gap (mm)	1	2.7	2.7	0
Number of excitation	…	1	2	1

DWI: Diffusion-weighted imaging.