Statistics of literature use of the term "spoiling" in gradient-echo MRI

A set of publications were selected to examine the specification of the word “spoiling” (or “spoiled”). The was selection that was primarily drawn from references used in my PhD thesis and underlying publications. A further selection criterion was the presence of the string “spoil” (as in spoiling, spoiled, spoiler) in the context of gradient-echo sequences. Hits in references were not considered. This delivered over 80 hits. By a random selection, the set was further limited to 50 hits.It was sorted on whether the term “spoiling”/”spoiled”/”spoiler” was accompanied by the specification “RF-“, “coherent gradient”, or that it was just tagged with “gradient”, or not specified at all. This document reports the outcome of these statistics.