Table 2.
T2 Decay Values Calculated for Four Baseline Regions in Metabolite-Nulled Spectra from Four Normal Volunteers for an 8-cm3 Voxel Placed in Parieto-occipital Mixed White–Gray Matter for both CP-PRESS and PRESS Acquisitions
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T2 values (ms) from CP-PRESS
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T2 values (ms) from PRESS
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| Baseline integration regions for T2 calculation | (mean ± SD) | R2 | (mean ± SD) | R2 |
| Region 1 (3.80–3.65 ppm) | 90.0 ± 4.6 | 0.97 | 36.6 ± 6.2 | 0.91 |
| Region 2 (2.35–2.20 ppm) | 73.3 ± 4.9 | 0.98 | 30.0 ± 8.5 | 0.84 |
| Region 3 (1.70–1.50 ppm) | 46.1 ± 6.5 | 0.94 | 46.1 ± 11.8 | 0.98 |
| Region 4 (1.00–0.80 ppm) | 89.2 ± 19.8 | 0.98 | 21.6 ± 8.6 | 0.98 |
Note. Mean and standard deviation decay values are shown (in ms). R2 values from the signal decay log-plot linear regression line estimates are also shown.