. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2011 Mar 17;66(3):725–734. doi: 10.1002/mrm.22865

Table 1.

Correlation of the qMT parameters with sGAG/WW and hydroxyproline/WW in articular cartilage for each of the specimens, reported as Pearson’s correlation coefficients. The statistical significance of each correlation is shown in parenthesis, and all correlations with p < .05 are shown in bold.

qMT	Patella 1		Patella 2		Patella 3		Tibia
	sGAG/WW	hyp/WW	sGAG/WW	hyp/WW	sGAG/WW	hyp/WW	sGAG/WW	hyp/WW
MTR	−.11 (.72)	−.4 (.16)	.25 (.39)	−.11(.71)	−.17 (.55)	.55(< .05)	.12 (.97)	.12 (.75)
BPF	.85(< .05)	.73(< .05)	.84(< .05)	.63(< .05)	.58(< .05)	−.34 (.24)	.7(< .05)	.01 (.99)
k(s⁻¹)	.72(< .05)	.39(< .05)	.92(< .05)	.41(< .05)	.65(< .05)	.14 (.63)	.64(< .05)	.15 (.68)
T₁(s)	−.86(< .05)	−.55(< .05)	−.71(< .05)	−.54(< .05)	−.76(< .05)	.11 (.7)	−.86(< .05)	.12 (.75)