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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Nov 21;37(6):1493–1498. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23856

Table 1.

Comparison of Carotid Wall Morphological Measurements at each echo time*

TE1 TE2 TE3 TE4
Average MWT*, mm 0.93 ± 0.22 0.89 ± 0.19 0.87 ± 0.20 0.85 ± 0.21
Average LA, cm2 0.335 ± 0.104 0.335 ± 0.101 0.327 ± 0.099 0.327 ± 0.099
Average WA*, cm2 0.216 ± 0.069 0.208 ± 0.065 0.202 ± 0.065 0.196 ± 0.067
Average OWA*, cm2 0.551 ± 0.149 0.543 ± 0.148 0.529 ± 0.144 0.523 ± 0.143

MWT, mean wall thickness; LA, lumen area; WA, wall area; OWA, outer wall area. TE1, TE = 17 ms; TE2, TE = 34 ms; TE3, TE = 51ms and TE4, TE = 68ms.

*

P < 0.02 for paired (TE1 vs. TE4) measurements.