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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Apr 17;51:173–181. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2018.04.006

Table 3.

Diffusion measurements of prostate imaging studies

(a) Diffusion measurements of healthy volunteers
Sequence b-values group Mono-exponential Kurtosis
ADC×10−3(mm2/s) Dk×10−3 (mm2/s) k
CG PZ CG PZ CG PZ
ssEPI Low 1.34±0.09 1.38±0.26 1.57±0.17 1.64±0.24 0.79±0.24 0.92±0.30
High 1.24±0.09 1.29±0.27 1.59±0.17 1.68±0.31 0.76±0.10 0.81±0.16
rFOV Low 1.33±0.09 1.39±0.15 1.59±0.18 1.67±0.22 0.86±0.36 0.85±0.37
High 1.20±0.10 1.29±0.25 1.59±0.15 1.74±0.25 0.84±0.11 0.87±0.19
msEPI Low 1.32±0.14 1.33±0.21 1.62±0.22 1.59±0.29 0.98±0.42 0.86±0.43
High 1.23±0.14 1.24±0.22 1.53±0.23 1.57±0.24 0.70±0.15 0.76±0.12
(b) ADC measurements in patients (×10−3 mm2/s)
Sequence Central Gland (including BPH) Healthy Peripheral Zone
ssEPI 1.29±0.17 1.74±0.23
rFOVs 1.27±0.15 1.58±0.22
rFOVl 1.31±0.16 1.68±0.21
msEPI 1.26±0.17 1.73±0.29
*

CG: Central gland; PZ: Peripheral zone.

**

Low b-values group is b = [10, 50, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800] s/mm2;

High b-values group is b = [10, 50, 100, 400, 800, 1200, 1500] s/mm2.