Table 2.

Mean (±SD) signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio for in vivo and ex vivo wild-type mouse brains.

Region	SNR		P-value
	In vivo (n = 3)	Ex vivo (n = 3)
Caudate putamen	14.4 ± 1.7	9.3 ± 1.1	≤0.001
Cerebellum	7.6 ± 0.9	11.4 ± 0.6	≤0.05
Corpus callosum	15.6 ± 0.6	4.2 ± 0.7	≤0.0001
Cortex	14.2 ± 1.4	10.0 ± 0.8	≤0.01
Hippocampus	19.3 ± 1.2	10.8 ± 0.8	≤0.0001
Hypothalamus	11.2 ± 1.2	11.5 ± 0.7	ns
Olfactory bulb	14.8 ± 1.9	10.9 ± 1.1	≤0.05
Midbrain	11.1 ± 1.2	6.9 ± 0.6	≤0.01
Thalamus	12.4 ± 1.5	7.8 ± 1.0	≤0.01
CNR (gray-white matter)	1.5	5.8	≤0.01