Table 1.
Normalized mean magnitudes in ROI’s and normalized magnitude entropies from the brain slices shown in Fig. 4. The ROI’s A and B are shown in the upper left slice in Fig. 4. The differences in magnitude A-B are also shown.
| Slice | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinc Pulse | ||||||
| A | 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.88 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| B | 0.64 | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.65 | 0.61 | 0.66 |
| A–B | 0.34 | 0.29 | 0.23 | 0.35 | 0.39 | 0.34 |
| S/S0 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.90 |
| Fast-kz 3D Tailored RF Pulse | ||||||
| A | 0.97 | 0.87 | 0.92 | 1.00 | 0.94 | 0.88 |
| B | 0.86 | 0.79 | 0.85 | 0.82 | 0.79 | 0.80 |
| A–B | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.18 | 0.15 | 0.08 |
| S/S0 | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.90 |
Statistical significance determined by t-test gave p-values of 0.00003 and 0.004 for A–B and S/S0, respectively.