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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson. 2009 Feb 21;198(2):188–196. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2009.02.005

Table 1.

Comparison of multi-component T2 in Tendon and Bovine Nasal Cartilage (BNC)

	Bulk from Spectroscopy				Bulk from Imaging
	Exp Fit (KG)		NNLS (MatLab)		Exp Fit (KG)		NNLS (Matlab)
	T2 (ms)	%	T2 (ms)	%	T2 (ms)	%	T2 (ms)	%
tendon	3.6±0.1	30.8	3.7±0.2	17.3	1.7±0.9	7.5	1.6±0.9	7.5
	12.5±0.2	29.1	11.0±0.4	33.6	8.1±1.0	26.9	8.0±0.3	26.4
	29.1±0.2	40.1	26.1±0.6	49.1	21.0±0.4	65.6	20.9±0.8	66.1
BNC	98.9±0.9	100	96.0±0.9	~100^*	88.3±0.5	100	85.5±0.9	~100^*

^*

There were some minor deviations (~ 2%) in bovine nasal cartilage; but we concluded that they were caused by the noises in the data.