Table 2.

The arterial/venous (A/V) and blood/muscle (B/M) contrast, and the arterial blood SNR measurements on peripheral angiograms along with p values from Student’s t-tests.

Method	PS-SSFP	IDEAL	P Value
A/V1	1.29±0.04	1.62±0.02	<0.10
A/V2	1.23±0.09	1.51±0.17	<0.10
B/M1	3.65±0.40	2.75±0.31	<0.10
B/M2	2.66±0.09	2.15±0.30	>0.10
SNR1	16.76±2.43	19.77±1.76	<0.10
SNR2	13.76±2.57	19.51±1.71	<0.10

The superscripts denote the first and second sets of measurements performed on the anterior tibial and dorsalis pedis arteries respectively.