Authors: Kenny (Chung) Kan¹, Rüdiger Strinberg², and Renzo (Laurentius) Huber³

1. Functional MRI Facility (FMRIF), NIMH, NIH, USA
2. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
3. Martino’s Center for Biomiedical imaging, Mass general Brigham, Harvard Medical School

What happens with the EPI sequence when I increase the TE? Which bandwidth should I use? What do I need to change to reduce PNS? There are many common misconceptions in basic EPI protocols. This blog post discusses the most common ones.

This post is a a continuation of highlighting basic acquisition features of EPI. See posts in GRAPPA, Regularization, Ghost correction, and 3rd order shim here.

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