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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Med. 2013 May 13;71(4):1394–1404. doi: 10.1002/mrm.24783

Table 2.

24-slice, 30 second heating simulated data set with five levels of noise added. 25 reconstructions performed at each noise level, with the mean and standard deviation reported for RMSE and maximum temperature.

Noise Level
0.25 °C 0.50 °C 1.00 °C 1.50 °C 2.00 °C
RMSE (°C)
Truth + Noise 0.3 +/− 0.0 0.5 +/− 0.0 1.0 +/− 0.0 1.5 +/− 0.0 2.0 +/− 0.0
RT-TCR, 0 Lag 0.6 +/− 0.0 1.1 +/− 0.0 2.3 +/− 0.0 3.4 +/− 0.0 4.6 +/− 0.0
RT-TCR, Final 0.3 +/− 0.0 0.7 +/− 0.0 1.4 +/− 0.0 2.1 +/− 0.0 2.8 +/− 0.1
Sliding Window 0.6 +/− 0.0 0.9 +/− 0.0 1.6 +/− 0.0 2.3 +/− 0.0 3.1 +/− 0.1
Temp STD (°C)
Sliding Window 0.3 +/− 0.0 0.5 +/− 0.0 1.0 +/− 0.0 1.5 +/− 0.0 2.0 +/− 0.0
RT-TCR, 0 Lag 0.5 +/− 0.0 0.9 +/− 0.0 1.9 +/− 0.0 2.8 +/− 0.0 3.8 +/− 0.0
RT-TCR, Final 0.2 +/− 0.0 0.4 +/− 0.0 0.9 +/− 0.0 1.3 +/− 0.0 1.7 +/− 0.0
Max Temp (°C)
Truth 19.7 19.7 19.7 19.7 19.7
Truth + Noise 19.8 +/− 0.3 19.6 +/− 0.5 19.6 +/− 1.2 19.2 +/− 1.4 19.5 +/− 2.1
RT-TCR, 0 Lag 20.1 +/− 0.5 19.9 +/− 0.8 19.5 +/− 2.1 20.0 +/− 3.5 19.3 +/− 4.3
RT-TCR, Final 19.8 +/− 0.4 19.5 +/− 1.2 19.0 +/− 1.2 20.1 +/− 2.4 19.3 +/− 4.3
Sliding Window 18.9 +/− 0.3 18.8 +/− 0.8 18.5 +/− 1.5 19.3 +/− 2.1 18.0 +/− 3.1