Table 3.

Average values for SNR, FA, ADC, Axial and Radial diffusivity, the number of fiber tracks and average pennation angle and fiber track length comparison between STEAM and TRSE. Additionally the results of the correlation between the two sequences and the p value (last column) of the Student's t-test comparison between the two techniques for each derived quantity are given.

	STEAM	TRSE	P value of Correlation	t value	P value between sequences
SNR	39.1 ±5.20	31.8±4.80	0.214	4.35	0.002
FA	0.30 ±0.04	0.23±0.03	0.012	7.82	0.000
ADC	1.24 ±0.03	1.51±0.06	0.149	16.0	0.000
Axial diffusivity	1.67±0.07	1.89±0.08	0.010	13.1	0.000
Radial diffusivity	1.02±0.04	1.33±0.07	0.234	15.2	0.000
Fiber Number	5885±73	5659±220	0.002	4.39	0.002
Pennation Angle	16.4±2.94	15.3±2.84	0.238	1.20	0.262
Fiber length	30.8±7.49	27.2±7.88	0.001	2.90	0.018