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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Apr 24;28:29–35. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2016.04.006

Table 3.

Estimated sample size required per treatment arm in a one year parallel group clinical trial for imaging and clinical outcomes, incorporating 23% attrition rate.

Effect size Imaging outcome measures
Clinical outcome measures
Whole brain Ventricular volume Midbrain SCP PSPRS RBANS SEADL
10% 2222 788 870 2606 868 1532 1132
25% 358 130 139 417 142 249 184
37.5% 151 60 64 188 65 112 83
50% 87 35 36 108 38 65 48

SCP = superior cerebellar peduncle, PSPRS = progressive supranuclear palsy rating scale, RBANS = repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological disease severity, SEADL = Schwab and England activities of daily living.