Table 2.
Summary of MRI findings on thigh and calf imaging in healthy volunteers.
| Number of volunteers | Thigh |
Calf |
Overall score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | STIR | T1 | STIR | Stripe | ||
| 8 | − | − | − | − | No | 0 |
| 1 | − | − | − | ± | No | 0 |
| 2 | − | − | ± | ± | No | 0.08 |
| 2 | ± | − | − | ± | No | 0.08 |
| 1 | − | ± | − | ± | No | 0 |
| 2 | ± | − | ± | ± | No | 0.34 |
| 1 | ± | ± | ± | − | No | 0.47 |
| 1 | − | ± | − | ++ | No | 0 |
| 1 | ± | − | ± | + | No | 0.19 |
The volunteers are grouped according to scan findings. − = all muscle normal, ± = mild limited changes, + = mild extensive changes, ++ = marked changes (as defined in the methods). Overall score: mean T1 grade across all muscles.