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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
A quick guide to commonly used terms and acronyms
for GE Healthcare MR sequences and parameters.
Industry MR Terms
Industry MR Terms
Sequence Type
GE Acronyms
Sequence Type
GE Acronyms
Spin Echo
SE
Gradient Echo
GRE
High-resolution Bilateral
Breast Imaging
VIBRANT
Spoiled Gradient Echo
SPGR
Coherent Gradient Echo
GRASS
High-resolution Bilateral
Breast Imaging with Fat/
Water Separation
VIBRANT Flex
Steady-state Free
Precession
SSFP
Non-contrast MR Angio,
FSE-based
Inhance DeltaFlow
Balanced Gradient Echo
FIESTA
FIESTA with Dual Excitation
FIESTA-C
Non-contrast MR Angio,
Phase-contrast Based
Inhance 3D Velocity
FIESTA with Elliptic-centric
k-space Filling
COSMIC
Non-contrast MR Angio,
Gated 2D
Inhance 2D Inflow
Multi-Echo Recombined
Gradient Echo
MERGE
Non-contrast MR Angio,
FIESTA-based
Inhance Inflow IR
Ultrafast Gradient Echo
Fast GRE, Fast SPGR
T2 Mapping
CartiGram
Ultrafast 3D Gradient Echo
3D Fast GRE, 3D Fast SPGR
Single-slab 3D Fast
Spin Echo
Cube
3D Volume FSPGR
with IR Prep
LAVA
Arterial Spin Labeling
3D ASL
3D Volume FSPGR with
Fat/Water Separation
LAVA Flex
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
DTI
DTI Tractography
FiberTrak
Motion Correction with
Radial Blades
PROPELLER
MR Elastography
MR Touch
Fat-water Separation
IDEAL
Diffusion Weighted
Imaging
DWI
enhanced Brain and Body
Diffusion
eDWI
Dynamic MRA with k-space
Manipulation
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Industry MR Terms
Industry MR Terms
Sequence Type
GE Acronyms
Sequence Parameters
GE Acronyms
Brain Spectroscopy
PROBE
Breast Spectroscopy Exam
BREASE
Repetition Time,
Echo Time (in msec)
TR, TE
Prostate Spectroscopy
PROSE
Averages
NEX
Inversion Recovery
IR, MPIR, FastIR
Scan Measurement Time
Acquisition Time
Short Tau IR
STIR
Distance Between Slices
Spacing
Fluid Attenuated IR
FLAIR
Shifting Slices Off-center
Off-center FoV
Turbo Spin Echo/Fast Spin
Echo
FSE
Field of View (FOV)
FOV [cm]
Rectangular FOV
Partial FOV (PFOV)
Single-shot FSE/TSE
SS FSE
Bandwidth
Receive Bandwidth [kHz]
Variable Bandwidth
Variable Bandwidth
Phase Oversampling
No Phase Wrap
Time Delay
Time Delay
Half Fourier Imaging
Half NEX; Fractional NEX
Partial Echo
Fractional Echo
Fast Recovery FSE (frFSE)
Echo Spacing
ESP
Echo Planar Imaging (EPI)
EPI
Echo Train Length
ETL
Apparent Diffusion
Coefficient Map
ADC
Navigators for Cardiac
Imaging
Navigators
Parallel Imaging
ASSET
Self-calibrating Parallel
Imaging
ARC
Contrast Bolus
Timing/Visualization
Smart Prep; FluoroTrigger
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Gradient Moment Nulling
Flow Comp
Ramped RF Pulse
Ramped Pulse
Magnetization Transfer
Contrast
MTC
Prep Pulse Fat Saturation
FatSat/Chem Sat
Suppression of Signal
SAT
Scan Synchronization
with ECG
Cardiac Gated/Triggering
Trigger Delay
TD
Multi-Channel RF Coil
Sensitivity Normalization
PURE, SCIC
Central k-space Filling
Arterial Visualization
Elliptic Centric
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