| Pulse Sequence | Siemens | GE |
| Spin Echo | Spin Echo, SE | Spin Echo |
| Gradient Echo | Gradient Echo, GRE | GRE, GRASS |
| Spoiled Gradient Echo | FLASH | SPGR |
| Steady State Free Process | TrueFISP | FIESTA |
| Ultra Fast Gradient Echo | Turbo Flash | Fast GRE, Fast SPGR |
| 3D Ultra Fast | MP Rage | 3DFGRE, 3D Fast SPGR |
| Inversion Recovery | IR, TurboIR, TIR | IR, MPIR |
| Short tau IR | STIR | STIR |
| RARE Sequence Rapid Acquisition Relaxation Enhancement | Turbo Spin Echo, TSE | Fast Spin Echo |
| Gradient and Spin echo | Turbo GSE, TGSE | GRASE |
| Parallel Imaging | IPAT | ASSET |
| Flow Velocity Encoding | Phase Contrast | Phase Contrast |
| Half Fourier Single Shot Turbo (Fast) Spin Echo | HASTE | SSFSE |
| Cine Study (cardiac) | CINE FLASH | Cine, FASTCARD |
| Spin echo black blood (cardiac) | dark-blood prepared TSE, HASTE, FLASH | Double IR FSE, FSE-XL with Blood suppression |
| Spin echo black blood null fat (cardiac) | TRIM | Triple IR FSE, FSE-XL IR with blood suppression |
| Viability imaging (cardiac) | Segmented 2D TurboFLASH | Myocardial Delayed enhancment (MDE) IR Prep Gated FGRE |
| Myocardial perfusion (cardiac) | 2D TurboFLASH, SS TrueFisp sat or Ir, gre-epi | FGR-ET multiphase |
| Scan Parameters | ||
| Echo Time, Repitition Time | TE, TR in msec | TE, TR in msec |
| Inversion Time | TI in msec | TI in msec |
| # of echos per TR | Echo Train Length, ETL, Turbo Factor | ETL |
| Time between echos | Echo Spacing | Echo Spacing |
| Repeated Measurements | Acquisitions, Number of Averages | NEX |
| RF Pulse in Gradient Echo | Flip Angle | Flip Angle |
| Scan Measurement Time | Acquisition Time, TA | Aquistition Time |
| Spacing between Slices | Distance Factor, In% | Spacing |
| Shifting Slices Off Center | Off Center Shift | Off center FOV |
| Field of View | FOV | FOV |
| Non-square Field fo View | Rec FOV | Rectangular FOV PFOV |
| Bandwidth | Receive Bandwidth | |
| Variable Bandwidth | Optimized Bandwidth | VB |
| Oversampling in Frequency | Oversampling | Always On |
| Oversampling in Phase | Phase Oversampling | No Phase Wrap |
| Segmented K-space | Lines, Segments | Views per segment |
| Time Delay/Block K-space | Time Delay, TD | Intersegment Delay |
| Patient Orientation Scan | Localizer, Scout | Localizer |
| Half Fourier Imaging | Half Fourier | 1/2 Nex, Fractional NEX |
| Partial Echo | Assymetric Echo | Fractional Echo |
| Gradient moment nulling | GMR | Flow Comp |
| Prep Pulse - Chemically | FAT SAT | FAT SAT, CHEM SAT |
| Prep Pulse - Spatially | Presat | SAT |
| Moving Sat Pulse | Travel Sat | Walking Sat |
| Image Sync. With ECG | ECG Triggered | Cardiac Gated, Triggering |
| Delay after R Wave | Trigger Delay, TD | Trigger Delay, TD |
| Respiratory Gating | Respiratory Gated | Respiratory Comp, RC, Respiratory Triggered |
