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Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Mar 14;100:93–101. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.03.008

Table 5.

Mean (standard deviation) values of fractional anisotropy (FA) in cortex and medulla for each cardiac phase (systolic or diastolic) and distortion correction method (M:multi-bin TOPUP, O:one-bin TOPUP, N: no correction). Statistical differences are labelled.

Correction method
Parameter Tissue Phase M O N
FA Cortex Systolic 0.22 (0.01)4 0.23 (0.02)4 0.23 (0.04)1,4
Diastolic 0.21 (0.04)3,4 0.20 (0.04)3,4 0.21 (0.04)1,4
Medulla Systolic 0.33 (0.04)4 0.32 (0.05)4 0.34 (0.03)4
Diastolic 0.33 (0.03)4 0.32 (0.05)4 0.34 (0.03)4
MD Cortex Systolic 2.01 (0.22)2 2.01 (0.21)2 2.06 (0.18)2
Diastolic 1.96 (0.20)2 1.96 (0.18)2 2.04 (0.10)2,4
Medulla Systolic 1.94 (0.23) 1.95 (0.24) 1.98 (0.19)
Diastolic 1.92 (0.13) 1.92 (0.14) 1.93 (0.13)4
1

Significant difference between diastolic and systolic FA in case of no correction

2

Significant difference between MD of one and multi-bin correction vs. no correction for the cortex

3

Significant difference between diastolic FA of multi-bin vs. one bin for the cortex

4

Significant difference between cortex and medulla.