A Philips 3.0 T MRI system (Philips, Netherlands) equipped for echo planer imaging (EPI) was used for data acquisition.
For each participant, images were acquired using a single shot spin echo-echo plane sequence in alignment with the anterior-posterior commissural plane with the following parameters: repetition time = 6590 milliseconds, echo time = 70 milliseconds, acquisition matrix = 128 × 128, field of view = 240 mm × 240 mm, flip angle = 90°, slice thickness = 2.5 mm without gap.
Choreographed in 1992, it is a more intimate dance filled with Mr. Fagan's signature intersecting and echoing planes, juxtapositions of ooze and iconic near-stillness, and enjoyably surprising bursts of disorder in the well-ordered masses of dancers.
Slice timing and head motion corrections at the RS echo-planer imaging (EPI) time courses were then applied.
For fMRI, a whole brain single-shot gradient-echo echo-planer imaging (EPI) sequence was used, which is sensitive to the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) contrast.
With all due respect to The Nut Job, Earth to Echo and Planes: Fire & Rescue, Dragon doesn't face competition from a real big-hitter animation all summer, so DreamWorks Animation and distribution partner Fox will be hoping for a strong sustained run.
The T1-weighted volumetric images were obtained with a 24 cm field of view and 256 × 256 matrix to provide 124 contiguous 1.5 mm thick slices in the coronal plane (echo time (TE) = 5 ms, repetition time (TR) = 512 ms, inversion time (TI) = 5650 ms).
Pamela May Donald, churchgoer, dog-lover, overweight and sweetly naive, is flying from Tokyo to Osaka, "squashed in like a canned ham", when a huge boom echoes through her plane.
While those views are relatively common among European intellectuals, the way in which they were strung together — placing Israel and Iran on the same moral plane, echoing language and themes that have long stirred anti-Semitism — along with Mr. Grass's own personal history have drawn exceptional anger to the poem.
Indeed, in an effort apparently designed to calm concerns, one of Boeing's airline customers - Bjorn Kjos, chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle - has come out in defence of the plane, echoing the view that "minor problems" such as these should be expected.
Tumours were assessed twice a week using T2-weighted (T2W) fast spin-echo images (repetition time=2000 ms; echo time=37 ms; in plane resolution=117 μm; and slice thickness=1 mm).
