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Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2013 Jul 30;23(11):2969–2978. doi: 10.1007/s00330-013-2972-1

Table 3.

Summary of quantitative metrics

Sequence description

Standard resolution

High resolution

Bilateral

Field strength (T)

3

7

3

7

7

Number of subjects

17

16

5

{\hat{SNR}}_{w}

1.45±0.48

8.15±1.60

0.28±0.12

1.87±0.35

Not measured

P value

<0.0001

<0.0001

Contrast (c)

0.33±0.11

0.75±0.08

0.28±0.08

0.70±0.09

0.71±0.05

P value

<0.0001

<0.0001

Uniformity (u_w)

0.78±0.04

0.75±0.07

0.72±0.04

0.73±0.11

0.69±0.07

P value

0.05

0.57