Effects of the pattern of glucocorticoid replacement on neural processing, emotional reactivity and well-being in healthy male individuals: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Table 5 Technical image properties of the three functional MR sequences used for data acquisition

	MRI system
	Siemens Magnetom Skyra syngo MR D13C (3 tesla)
	MRI acquisition details
	IFEPT	FCT	RS
Volumes	250	105	180
Pulse sequence type	EPI	EPI	EPI
FOV	192 mm	192 mm	192 mm
Matrix size	64x64 mm	64x64 mm	64x64 mm
Slice thickness	3 mm	3 mm	3.5 mm
Acquisition orientation	T > C-30.0 > S2.3	T > C-30.0 > S2.3	T > C-30.0 > S2.3
Whole brain?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bandwidth	2298 Hz/Px	2298 Hz/Px	2170 Hz/Px
Order of acquisition	Interleaved	Interleaved	Interleaved
TE	30 ms	30 ms	28 ms
TR	3,000 ms	3,000 ms	2,040 ms
Flip angle	87°	87°	89°

C coronal, EPI echo planar imaging, IFEPT implicit face expression processing task, FCT flashing checkerboard task, FOV field of view, RS resting state imaging, S sagittal, T transverse (axial), TE echo time, TR repetition time

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