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 (
|
Temperature ( ) Measured by a Thermocouple ( ) ( ) | Temperature Difference ( ) ( ) () | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |