Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 1 Multiparametric MRI protocol

From: Interobserver agreement for the Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) in differentiating non-muscle-invasive and muscle-invasive urinary bladder tumors

	Axial T2-WI	Coronal T2-WI	Sagittal T2-WI	Axial DWI
TR	4385	7645	3000	2200
TE	100–115	100–115	100–115	63
FOV	27–32 cm	28–32 cm	16 cm	28–32 cm
Matrix	272 × 272	232 × 135	160 × 160	96 × 96
Slice thickness	3–4 mm	3–4 mm	3–4 mm	3 mm
Gap	0–0.5 mm	0–0.5 mm	0–0.5 mm	0.5–1 mm
Flip angle	90	90	90	90
Acquisition time	180 s	30 s	48 s	4:35 min
B value				0,400,800 s/mm²

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