Getting missing GE information required by BIDS for common preprocessing

With regards to SliceTiming I have scanned agar phantom on GE MR750 (a.k.a. Discovery) running DV-24 using short fMRI sequence planned in 8 combinations:

| Code | SeqNum |    ORDER    | ACQUISITION | HEAD_TOP_SLICE | HEAD_BOTTOM_SLICE |
|------+--------+-------------+-------------+----------------+-------------------|
| s06  |      6 | Top-Down    | Sequential  |              1 |                44 |
| s07  |      7 | Bottom-Up   | Sequential  |              1 |                44 |
| s08  |      8 | Top-Down    | Sequential  |             44 |                 1 |
| s09  |      9 | Bottom-Up   | Sequential  |             44 |                 1 |
| s10  |     10 | Top-Down    | Interleaved |              1 |                44 |
| s11  |     11 | Bottom-Up   | Interleaved |              1 |                44 |
| s12  |     12 | Top-Down    | Interleaved |             44 |                 1 |
| s13  |     13 | Bottom-Up   | Interleaved |             44 |                 1 |

Unfotrunately TriggerTime was not saved with DICOMs but I have found FloatSlopRTIATimer (or RTIA_timer) to have something to do with SliceTiming.

I can share the DICOMS (224MB). (Or produce more if needed.) Detailed report can be found on https://github.com/nikadon/cc-dcm2bids-wrapper. At the bottom of the README file I have placed number of tables containing:

  • SeriesNumber,
  • ImagesInAcquisition,
  • InStackPositionNumber,
  • InstanceNumber,
  • SliceLocation,
  • TriggerTime,
  • FloatSlopRTIATimer

for each acquisition.

I am not sure about the reliability of the FloatSlopRTIATimer for SliceTiming estimation.(?)