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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2011 Sep 25;186(5):1818–1824. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.07.013

Table 3.

PPV and NPV for the each MRI sequence in different prostate zones. PPVs were significantly different among the four MRI sequences (p<0.01), whereas NPVs were similar.

PPV NPV
T2W ADC MRS DCE T2W ADC MRS DCE
Peripheral zone 0.69 (0.05) 0.74 (0.04) 0.94 (0.04) 0.86 (0.05) 0.89 (0.02) 0.87 (0.02) 0.8 (0.02) 0.84 (0.02)
Central gland 0.87 (0.1) 0.63 (0.13) 0.89 (0.1) 0.86 (0.07) 0.92 (0.02) 0.92 (0.02) 0.91 (0.02) 0.92 (0.02)
Anterior PZ & Central gland 0.73 (0.09) 0.75 (0.06) 0.96 (0.04) 0.89 (0.04) 0.93 (0.01) 0.94 (0.01) 0.91 (0.01) 0.92 (0.01)
Overall gland 0.7 (0.05) 0.73 (0.04) 0.93 (0.04) 0.86 (0.04) 0.9 (0.01) 0.89 (0.01) 0.83 (0.01) 0.87 (0.01)