Table 4.

Correlations between the changes of the perfusion parameters of SYN and the changes of the clinical disease activity scores over a 3-months follow-up time. The highlighted numbers (bold and marked with *) denote significant correlations (p<0.05).

SYN Perfusion parameters (baseline, n=8)	dT (S)		MaxI (%)		TTP (s)		Slope (%/min)		AUC (%hour)		AUCP (%hour)		SYN grading
Temporal resolution	10 s	5 s	10 s	5 s	10 s	5 s	10 s	5 s	10 s	5 s	10 s	5 s
TEN28	-0.64	-0.65	0.74*	0.83*	-0.33	-0.16	0.73*	0.75*	0.77*	0.83*	0.22	0.43	0.49
SW28	-0.22	-0.35	0.47	0.53	0.27	0.43	0.11	0.13	0.38	0.42	0.54	0.74*	-0.19
ESR	0.08	-0.18	-0.11	-0.01	0.16	0.35	-0.10	-0.07	-0.12	-0.04	0.06	0.34	-0.27
CRP	-0.60	-0.53	0.16	0.22	-0.26	-0.15	0.30	0.34	0.18	0.21	-0.11	0.02	0.06
DAS28-ESR	-0.50	-0.79*	0.53	0.60	-0.06	-0.11	0.43	0.47	0.51	0.55	0.24	0.34	0.20
DAS28-CRP	-0.63	-0.82*	0.60	0.68	-0.21	-0.18	0.56	0.60	0.60	0.66	0.20	0.35	0.33
SYN grading	-0.60	-0.48	0.48	0.53	-0.82*	-0.81*	0.92*	0.93*	0.64	0.67	-0.36	-0.33