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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2014 Dec 8;42(3):698–708. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24819

Table 4.

Associations of total cross-sectional and gray matter areas values at the 4 different levels

C2–C3 C3–C4 T8–T9 T9–T10
TCA GM TCA GM TCA GM TCA GM
C2–C3 TCA 1 0.65
(<0.001) 		0.89
(<0.001) 		0.76
(<0.001) 		0.74
(<0.001) 		0.55
(0.002) 		0.65
(<0.001) 		0.63
(<0.001)
GM 1 0.51
(0.003) 		0.58
(0.001) 		0.68
(<0.001) 		0.38
(0.041) 		0.59
(0.001) 		0.52
(0.004)
C3–C4 TCA 1 0.85
(<0.001) 		0.63
(<0.001) 		0.55
(0.002) 		0.57
(0.001) 		0.62
(<0.001)
GM 1 0.62
(<0.001) 		0.30
(0.104)		 0.54
(0.002) 		0.57
(0.001)
T8–T9 TCA 1 0.49
(0.006) 		0.89
(<0.001) 		0.76
(<0.001)
GM 1 0.49
(0.006) 		0.63
(<0.001)
T9–T10 TCA 1 0.74
(<0.001)
GM 1

Pearson coefficients and respective p values (reported in brackets) for the relationships of total cross-sectional area (TCA) and gray matter (GM) area in the cohort of 32 subjects at the C2–C3, C3–C4, T8–T9 and T9–T10 disc levels. Statistically significant values are reported in bold.