. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Apr 24;42(6):1656–1665. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24929

Table 1.

Phantom relaxation times and ADC values in NIST breast phantom

	T1^** relaxation time (ms)	T2^** relaxation time (ms)	Reference^* ADC (mm²/s)	Bilateral DWI ADC (mm²/s)	rFOV DWI ADC (mm²/s)
10% PVP	2021 ± 63.5	1120 ± 449.1	1.8	1.630.03	1.690.1
25% PVP	1033 ± 12.1	471 ± 138.1	1.0	0.940.02	0.990.1
40% PVP	625 ± 10.5	465 ± 209.1	0.65	0.540.02	0.610.09

Abbreviations: ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient; SD: standard deviation; NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology; PVP: polyvinylpyrrolidone; DWI: diffusion-weighted imaging; rFOV: reduced field-of-view.

measurement performed at 20.5°C

^**

T1/T2 values provided by the phantom manufacturer