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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2008 Sep 23;91(1):69–81. doi: 10.1007/s11060-008-9685-3

Table 4.

Median, maximum values and summed values of the spectroscopic metabolite maps in different regions

Parameter WM (N = 67) CEL (N = 49) NEL (N = 67) T2ALL (N = 67) CNI2T (N = 67) CNI2 (N = 67)
nCho median 1.00 0.79 ± 1.04 0.97 ± 0.86 0.90 ± 0.50 1.18 ± 0.49 1.22 ± 0.33
nCho max 1.53 ± 0.54 0.84 ± 1.20 1.38 ± 1.23 1.50 ± 1.21 1.56 ± 1.21 1.81 ± 2.38
nCr median 1.00 0.54 ± 0.52 0.76 ± 0.37 0.70 ± 0.36 0.75 ± 0.29 0.87 ± 0.25
nNAA median 1.00 0.20 ± 0.18 0.41 ± 0.21 0.34 ± 0.18 0.36 ± 0.17 0.49 ± 0.18
CNI median −0.01 ± 0.41 3.23 ± 4.35 2.78 ± 4.68 2.35 ± 3.57 3.45 ± 1.88 2.77 ± 0.81
CNI max 2.56 ± 3.08 3.43 ± 4.68 4.29 ± 5.67 5.05 ± 5.56 5.79 ± 5.55 5.77 ± 6.03
CNI sum 3.24 ± 20.12 3.42 ± 21.20 15.31 ± 48.19 50.5 ± 94.10 41.59 ± 95.62 78.60 ± 110.50

There was no significant difference between the values at 15T and 3T field strengths. None of these parameters exhibited a significant relationship to survival