. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Jan 4;38(2):435–440. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23988

Table 1.

The SNR increases averaged over 4 subjects in 7 ROIs along the spinal cord at the 7 upper cervical spine vertebrae in TSE T₂- and GRE T₁-weighted images.

ROI	SNR increase	SNR increase
	T₂ image [%]±SD	T₁ image [%]±SD
C1 (medulla)	41.96 ±7.34	34.7 ±5.46
C2	45.23 ±4.83	42.11 ±5.44
C3	40.31 ±6.05	39.63 ±8.1
C4	38.09 ±14.72	35.56 ±12.53
C5	36.99 ±10.28	30.01 ±10.49
C6	33.11 ±6.53	26.63 ±11.72
C7	28.58 ±9.43	22.02 ±9.04

Average Increase	37.75 ±5.16	32.95 ±6.62