Hi Greg I would probably say the reverse. In general mprage is optimal for CNR/unit time in terms of gray/white contrast. Flash has some advantage for e.g. distinguishing pallidum from putamen, but you would need to modify our recon stream to take advantage of them cheers Bruce
On Thu, 8 May 2014, Gregory Kirk wrote: > looking at the docs available it seems that in general > flash is prefered but it seems that for cortical thickness studies you > may still favor the mprage ? all with good parameter setting of course. > > thanks in advance for any clarifying comments you may have > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > 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.