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. 2014 Mar 4;9(3):e90300. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090300

Table 3. Comparison of mean values of DCE parameters in pre- and post-treatment VS and Meningiomas.

b Compare Drug-Induced Changes of Mean in Two Tumors Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test
Tumor type a DCE- MRI Para-meters. Day 0 Day 3 Day 90
VS MSE 86.7±20.2 63.6±14.0 * 54.4±19.7 *
MSErel 1.04±0.19 0.77±0.17 * 0.65±0.23 **
ΣMSE 62.6±14.5 43.7±10.4 * 36.0±14.0 *
ΣMSErel 0.75±0.14 0.54±0.13 * 0.43±0.16 **
Rmse1/mse2 1.18±1.18 0.68±0.01 0.64±0.06
Rmse1/mse2(DN) 0.73±0.10 0.62±0.05 * 0.62±0.04 *
R 1 0.88±0.03 0.88±0.05 0.86±0.08
K trans 0.12±0.01 0.09±0.01 ** 0.09±0.03 *
v p 0.05±0.02 0.03±0.01 * 0.03±0.01 *
v e 0.54±0.07 0.59±0.13 0.59±0.07
k ep 0.22±0.04 0.16±0.03 ** 0.15±0.04 **
Meningi-omas Rmse1/mse2 1.00±0.08 4.91±38.2 0.85±0.04 **
Rmse1/mse2(DN) 0.98±0.06 0.93±0.09 0.84±0.03 **
a

MSE, ΣMSE are in arbitrary unit, MSErel, ΣMSErel and Rmse1/mse2, k ep are ratios. K trans is in minute−1.

b

Comparison of differences in DCE-MRI parameters between pre- and post-treatment in each group of tumors, i.e. VS (N = 7) and meningiomas (N = 5) for each pair of visits (Day 0 and day 3, day 0 and day 90).

*p<0.05,

**p<0.01.