Minimally invasive, imaging guided virtual autopsy compared to conventional autopsy in foetal, newborn and infant cases: study protocol for the paediatric virtual autopsy trial

Table 1 Sequences for post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging

Sequence	Slice thickness (mm)	TR (ms)	TI (ms)	TE (ms)	IR delay (ms)
Body Imaging
T2 coronal	2	2969		100
T2 SPIR coronal	2	3155		100
T1 IR coronal	2	7000	600	15	600
T2 axial	2	4000		80
T2 SPIR axial	2	3341		60
T1 IR axial	2	7000	600	15	600
T2 sagittal	2	2969		100
Brain Imaging
T2 axial	2	5531		50
FLAIR axial	2	12000	2850	140	2850
T1 IR axial	2	7000	600	15	600

TR, relaxation time, TI, inversion time, TE, echo time, IR, inversion recovery, mm, millimetre, ms, millisecond, SPIR, spectral presaturation with inversion recovery, FLAIR, fluid attenuated inversion recovery.

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