Hi Roberto I think a T2-space FLAIR is your best bet. We have very little experience with other FLAIR and/or/ T2s, but those seem to work well. They are *much* higher SNR than the T2* maps that one can get from an memprage where the last echo is only around 7ms.
cheers Bruce On Sat, 14 Dec 2013, roberto.vivi...@uni-ulm.de wrote: > Dear all, > > starting from the version of March of this year, FreeSurfer supports > the use of co-acquired FLAIR images to separate the dura from the gray > matter. Some years ago, the idea about solving the same problem was to > use multi-echo MPRAGE images. I am starting a new project, in which I > am planning to acquire structural images, and I would like to know > something more about these two ways of addressing the dura problem. > > -- is there any experience on the superiority of the FLAIR approach, > or is there any published evaluation of it / comparison with the > MEMPRAGE approach (such as the van der Kouwer et al. 2008 paper on the > MEMPRAGE) (I looked for it in scholar.google but could not find it) > > -- are you planning to support the multi echo approach in the future, > or is it going to be discontinued > > I will also be very interested to hear from anyone who has had any > experience with the FLAIR approach, or both. > > Best wishes, > Roberto > > Roberto Viviani > University of Ulm, Germany > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
