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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 May 23;34(1):107–119. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22596

TABLE 2.

Coefficient of Variation (CV) and Repeatability coefficient (RC) of the DTI indices between the 6- and 13- diffusion gradient directions (top panel) compared to those using the repeated 13-diffusion gradient directions* (bottom panel).

13–6 MG
LG
AT-S
AT-D
CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av

λ1 2.29 0.06 0.70 0.04 0.36 0.02 1.04 0.06
λ2 1.89 0.10 4.50 0.14 4.56 0.18 4.00 0.16
λ3 2.11 0.08 6.53 0.27 3.94 0.12 3.13 0.10
FA 0.00 0.02 9.43 0.09 4.88 0.04 9.59 0.08
x-axis 1.75 4.59 1.32 2.57 0.53 1.30 0.81 1.98
y-axis 0.46 0.56 3.39 5.73 5.30 14.11 3.15 8.12
z-axis 19.24 11.34 9.64 4.06 53.45 12.06 35.72 4.59

*13–13 MG
LG
AT-S
AT-D
CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av CV-av RC-av

λ1 1.28 0.07 3.30 0.19 1.65 0.09 1.25 0.07
λ2 1.50 0.06 1.92 0.07 3.53 0.15 4.28 0.18
λ3 3.68 0.13 4.12 0.14 3.87 0.13 3.99 0.14
FA 6.93 0.04 8.98 0.07 9.36 0.06 6.50 0.04
x-axis 3.80 8.80 2.32 6.84 4.60 11.91 3.35 7.89
y-axis 5.68 13.95 3.17 7.46 4.45 13.06 2.32 6.21
z-axis 14.24 4.92 13.87 7.90 26.21 13.25 37.41 8.75
*

The values for the repeated 13-gradients are also in Table 1 and are shown again here for ease of comparison.

CV is dimensionless percentage, the RC has the same dimensions as the corresponding parameter.