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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Imaging Behav. 2009 Jun;3(2):132–141. doi: 10.1007/s11682-008-9055-y

Table 3.

DTI Indices in MCI Patients and Controls1

MCI (N=14) Controls (N=9) P value
Temporal Region:
Average FA .28 (.06) .34 (.06) .01
Left Hemisphere .27 (.07) .34 (.07) .04
Right Hemisphere .28 (.06) .34 (.07) .04
Average ADC 928.0 (80.6) 861.3 (30.9) .03
Left Hemisphere 927.4 (77.9) 858.3 (43.3) .02
Right Hemisphere 928.7 (112.2) 864.2 (45.2) .12
Prefrontal Region:
Average FA .30 (.03) .29 (.03) .49
Left Hemisphere .30 (.03) .29 (.02) .35
Right Hemisphere .29 (.05) .28 (.04) .66
Average ADC 885.4 (78.0) 859.5 (58.0) .40
Left Hemisphere 873.1 (82.1) 863.0 (69.0) .75
Right Hemisphere 897.6 (97.9) 856.4 (55.3) .27
Whole Brain:
FA .26 (.03) .26 (.02) .77
ADC 1223.1 (113.1) 1139.3 (106.6) .09
1

FA=Fractional Anisotrophy; ADC=Apparent Diffusion Coefficient. Higher values of FA and lower values of ADC signify greater WM integrity.

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