TABLE 1.

Comparison of quantitative analysis of 3D NerveVIEW sequence images with and without gadolinium contrast administration.

	Without Gd contrast	With Gd contrast	p-value
SNR
S1	301.89 ± 67.91	295.35 ± 68.58	<0.05
CNR
Nerve vs. bone	193. 11 ± 57.08	199.90 ± 59.47	<0.05
Nerve vs. muscle	242.83 ± 58.78	246.64 ± 62.30	0.076
Nerve vs. vein	79.93 ± 60.71	178.65 ± 58.56	<0.001
Nerve vs. fat	188.44 ± 55.33	188.25 ± 59.81	0.932
CR
Nerve vs. bone	0.47 ± 0.10	0.51 ± 0.09	<0.001
Nerve vs. muscle	0.66 ± 0.02	0.70 ± 0.08	<0.001
Nerve vs. vein	0.15 ± 0.07	0.44 ± 0.11	<0.001
Nerve vs. fat	0.45 ± 0.07	0.46 ± 0.08	<0.05

SNR: signal-to-noise ratio; SN1: the 1st nerve; CNR: contrast-to-noise ratio; CR: contrast ratio.