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. 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 2.

Contrast ratio, defined as the ratio of signal intensities of two tissues

Standard T2 Fat-suppressed T2 Shorter TE iSTIR DW-EPI
Tumor to background tissuea 1.46 ± 0.53 1.43 ± 0.51 1.64 ± 0.34 1.56 ± 0.47 2.62 ± 1.42
Cyst to background tissueb 2.41 ± 0.13 2.30 ± 0.93 1.98 ± 0.89 0.22 ± 0.07 0.83 ± 0.19
a

Average of two patients, who had tumors

b

Average of two different patients, who had multiple cysts