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Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging. 2009 Sep 19;27(9):1249–1257. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.028

Table 3.

The raw median SNR values and the time, g factor and unit volume corrected median SNR ratios of the spectra in the white matter region of the volunteers, showing an excellent agreement between the simulations and the empirical data

	Cho	Cr	NAA
SNR_Full	20.4±3.3	19.8±2.4	47.4±4.2
SNR_SENSE	14.1±2.0	12.2±1.4	31.3±2.1
SNR_Ellipsoidal	34.0±5.5	29.7±1.6	73.6±2.8
SNR_{EllipsoidalSENSE}	22.7±1.5	17.6±1.9	47.5±1.7
Full_corr/SENSE_corr	0.99±0.14	1.00±0.14	0.97±0.17
Full_corr/Ellipsoidal_corr	0.98±0.07	0.99±0.06	0.98±0.07