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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2015 Mar 29;25(9):2665–2672. doi: 10.1007/s00330-015-3688-1

Table 2b.

Relative decrease in prostate volume, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and Ktrans between the two MRI examinations. Negative relative changes indicate an increase (e.g., in ADC measured in tumour). PZ = peripheral zone. TZ = transition zone.

PZ TZ Tumour
Median (Range),n p- value Median (Range),n p- value Median (Range),n p- value
Volume 0.44 (-1.71, 0.78), 30 <.001 0.29 (0.01, 0.55), 30 <.001
ADC 0.14 (−0.29, 0.43), 28 0.001 0.08 (−0.16, 0.24), 27 0.022 −0.17 (−0.79, 0.49), 32 <.001
Ktrans 0.48 (−1.40, 0.81), 12 0.077 0.35 (−0.75, 0.86), 11 0.054 0.56 (0.06, 0.88), 18 <.001