. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 29.

Published in final edited form as: MAGMA. 2013 Sep 20;27(3):245–255. doi: 10.1007/s10334-013-0410-7

Table 1.

Signal to noise ratio averaged across all five patients, expressed as mean ± SD

Anatomy	Standard T₂	Fat-suppressed T₂	Shorter TE	iSTIR	DW-EPI
Fat	99 ± 32	24 ± 10	10 ± 4.8	4.4 ± 4.3	8.8 ± 4.4
Blood vessels (in liver)	111 ± 44	110 ± 8.6	47 ± 42	18 ± 15	21 ± 7.8
Muscle	35 ± 11	28 ± 5.3	19 ± 8.4	14 ± 9	14 ± 1.1
Liver	46 ± 17	68 ± 19	37 ± 16	27 ± 14	48 ± 14
Intervertebral disc	66 ± 23	44 ± 17	17 ± 11	10 ± 8	48 ± 24
Kidney	76 ± 30	100 ± 16	56 ± 36	38 ± 30	59 ± 7.3
Spleen	81 ± 33	114 ± 33	56 ± 46	42 ± 41	151 ± 52
Bile	134 ± 56	216 ± 50	85 ± 58	16 ± 12	60 ± 18
CSF	154 ± 55	147 ± 51	58 ± 22	13 ± 11	30 ± 16

DW-EPI images are of lower resolution and hence the increased SNR is not a fundamental advantage