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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Mar 5;36(2):411–421. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23636

Table 1.

Hepatic perfusion parameters estimated by the original and corrected AIF in normal liver tissue of 12 patients. The change in percentage is the difference between the parameters estimated using the corrected and original AIFs as a fraction of the estimates with the corrected AIF

Original AIF
(ml/100g/min)
Corrected AIF
(ml/100g/min)
Change (%) P-Value
kp 94.9 ± 24.3 120.5 ± 30.0 19.4 0.004
ka 29.3 ± 9.3 22.4 ± 8.0 −30.5 0.002
k2 378.0 ± 82.2 388.0 ± 71.5 2.6 0.595