Table 3.
Ex vivo ROI-based MET2 results for tumor and normal ROIs (as defined in Fig. 1). Component relaxation times (T̄2,n) and signal fractions (pn) were tabulated for each animal using the spectra shown in Fig. 3 (panels e and f).
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| # | pI (%) | T̄2,I (ms) | pII (%) | T̄2,II (ms) | pIII (%) | T̄2,III (ms) | p (%) | T̄2 (ms) |
| 9 | 2.8 | 40.7 | 71.9 | 125.9 | 25.3 | 215.8 | 93.6 | 60.6 |
| 10 | 15.1 | 42.3 | 81.9 | 101.3 | 3.0 | 304.6 | 89.4 | 48.3 |
| 11 | 5.5 | 30.4 | 88.1 | 101.2 | 6.4 | 267.5 | 100 | 44.7 |
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| Mean | 7.8±6.5 | 37.8±6.5 | 80.6±8.2 | 109.5±14.2 | 11.6±12.0 | 262.6±44.6 | 94.4±5.3 | 51.2±8.4 |