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. 2017 Feb;7(1):59–78. doi: 10.21037/qims.2017.02.03

Table 2. Summary of healthy liver IVIM studies with Dslow and PF value in the mid 50% data (middle two quartile) distribution of reported value.

Paper Subject number PF (%) Dslow (10-3 mm2/s) Dfast (10-3 mm2/s) Field strength (T) Breath compensation b value distribution (s/mm2) Post-processing algorithm
Leporq et al., 2015 (19) 25 21.90±4.90 1.08±0.07 79.00±23.50 3.0 FB 0, 10, 80, 800 ROI analysis and nonlinear least-square fitting
Luciani et al., 2008 (11) 25 27.00±5.30 1.10±0.70 79.10±18.10 1.5 Respiratory trigger 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 Pixel-wise asymptotic fitting then ROI analysis with parametric maps
Taimouri et al., 2015 (20) 29 25.00±18.00 1.01±0.29 54.60±55.10 1.5 FB 5, 50, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800 Pixel-wise asymptotic fitting then ROI analysis with parametric maps
Wurnig et al., 2016 (21) 8 22.90 1.16 65.50 3.0 FB 0, 10, 20, 40, 90, 100, 170, 200, 210, 240, 390, 530, 620, 750, 970, 1000 ROI analysis and asymptotic fitting with parameter-free algorithm
Jerome et al., 2014 (22) 10 17.70±2.90 1.16±0.12 44.00±5.00 1.5 FB 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 250, 500, 750 ROI analysis then Bayesian fitting
Lee et al., 2015 (23) 12 22.00±4.00 1.00±0.07 116.71±100.20 1.5 Electrocardiography (ECG) triggering (ET) 0, 30, 60, 100, 150, 200, 400, 600, 900 Pixel-wise least-squares fitting then ROI analysis with parametric maps
Regini et al., 2015 (24) 40 22.40±7.20 1.05±0.11 40.70±19.90 3.0 Respiratory trigger 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 ROI analysis then asymptotic fitting

IVIM, intravoxel incoherent motion; PF, perfusion fraction, FB, free-breathing.