Dr. Peter Buetow responds:

Although there is no single protocol for performing MRCP, we advocate the following:

Coronal HASTE (Seimens) or FSE XL (GE)—16 seconds total acquisition time Three (frontal, RAO, LAO) Thick slice coronal TURBO SPIN ECHO (TE=240msec); FSE with 240 msec echo train length (GE)—8 seconds each Three (frontal, RAO, LAO) Thin (4mm) coronal HASTE (TE=95 msec); FSE XL (GE)—20 seconds for 13 slices