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. 2012 Jul 5;13(4):172–187. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v13i4.3792

Table 3.

Temperatures of a mobile phantom without motion correction acquired by MR thermal imaging and those measured via a thermocouple. For the temperatures obtained by MR thermal imaging, an average value (± standard deviation) of 9 pixels is taken.

Heating Time Temperature (
TMRTI
) Obtained by MR Thermal Imaging (
°C
)
Temperature ( TC) Measured by a Thermocouple ( °C ) ( Error=±0.1 ) Temperature Difference ( ΔT=TTCTMRTI ) ( °C ) (Average=10.9)
10 min 28.9 (±5.1) 37.1 8.2
20 min 31.5 (±6.5) 39.9 8.4
30 min 30.2 (±6.6) 41.6 11.4
40 min 31.7 (±5.3) 42.7 11.0
50 min 29.8 (±7.2) 44.0 14.2
60 min 35.9 (±6.1) 45.8 9.9
70 min 34.4 (±6.2) 47.5 13.1