Table 2.

Cerebral blood flow parameters for separate study populations.

	Healthy (Mean ± Std)	Chronic Anemia (Mean ± Std)	Chronic Anemia without venous outflow (Mean ± Std)	Anemic Subjects with Venous Outflow (Mean ± Std)
PCASL CBF (ml/100g/min)	45.5 ± 5.1	49.4 ± 10.1	46.8 ± 7.1	58.8 ± 14.4
Relative Error PC-PCASL CBF (%)	30.1 ± 9.2	53.6 ± 13.8	49.5 ± 13.8	68.1 ± 6.7*
PCASL CBF B1 (ml/100g/min)	49.1 ± 6.1	55.0 ± 13.8	51.4 ± 7.1	67.7 ± 20.1
Relative Error PC-PCASL CBF B1 (%)	22.8 ± 8.9	44.5 ± 12.9	41.5 ± 12.2	56.1 ± 7.4*,+
PCASL CBF (ml/100g/min)	66.8 ± 7.3	75.2 ± 16.4	71.1 ± 12.4	89.5 ± 20.9
Relative Error PC-PCASL CBF (%)	−7.8 ± 7.2	13.5 ± 14.3*	9.1 ± 14.3*	28.5 ± 8.0*,+
PCASL CBF ATT (ml/100g/min)	67.0 ± 7.9	77.0 ± 19.1	71.9 ± 13.6	94.8 ± 26.9
Relative Error PC-PCASL ATT CBF (%)	−8.1 ± 6.8	11.6± 11.4*	12.3 ± 11.4*	23.6 ± 7.3*,+
PCASL CBF B1 (ml/100g/min)	72.3± 9.8	85.5 ± 24.9*	79.1 ± 16.8	109.3 ± 36.3
Relative Error PC-PCASL Two Compartment CBF B1 (%)	−15.4 ± 6.8	1.8 ± 10.7*	−0.7 ± 10.0*	10.5 ± 9.4*,+
Velocity Corrected Labeling Efficiency	81.3 ± 1.0	80.6 ± 3.1	81.0 ± 2.0	79.3 ± =−5.8
Velocity and B1 Corrected Labeling Efficiency	75.5 ± 2.1	73.1 ± 5.1	74.1 ± 4.0	69.8 ± 7.6

^*values are statistically different that the control population using Dunnett’s test(p≤0.05),

⁺values are statistically different than the non venous outflow, anemic subjects using student t statistic(p≤0.05)