Table 1. Comparison between the topological properties of the human brain anatomical networks derived from the conventional DTI and FLAIR-DTI datasets.

Global parameters	Conventional DTI (Mean ± SD)	FLAIR-DTI (Mean ± SD)	t-value	p-value
Eglob	0.679±0.063	0.737±0.062	−2.634	0.016*
Eloc	0.986±0.076	1.064±0.082	−2.354	0.029*
Cw	0.339±0.018	0.352±0.019	−1.535	0.140
Lw	1.486±0.151	1.366±0.107	2.510	0.021*
S	0.145±0.014	0.159±0.013	−2.255	0.036*

The negative (positive) t-value indicates that the value of the global parameter corresponding to the FLAIR-DTI datasets is higher (lower) than that of the conventional DTI datasets. The symbol (*) stands for statistically significant difference, as determined by a threshold of p<0.05.