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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2009 May;61(5):1158–1164. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21951

Table 1.

Estimated values of the relaxation parameters of cortical plaques and normal cortical tissue in ex vivo APP/PS1 brain specimens.

Cortical Plaques Normal Cortical Tissue
Proton density (a.u.) 1.00 ± 0.10 1.042 ± 0.081
T1 (s) 1.51 ± 0.07 1.64 ± 0.03
T2 (ms) 32.1 ± 2.2 56.6 ± 1.3
T2* (ms) 31.1 ± 1.6 49.4 ± 3.0
Frequency shift (Hz) −0.7 ± 0.2 0.0 ± 0.1