. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Radiol. 2018 May 2;48(8):1139–1151. doi: 10.1007/s00247-018-4140-x

Table 3.

Quantitative measures of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) efficiencies using our proposed optimized protocol and a previously published MP-RAGE protocol for neonates [23]

Full-term subjects	CNR efficiency		SNR efficiency

	Proposed protocol	Previous protocol	Proposed protocol	Previous protocol
1	2.6	1.4	14.9	4.5
2	2.2	1.8	14.3	5.2
3	2.4	2.3	14.2	6.2
4	1.8	1.6	13.4	5.2
5	2.4	1.8	15.1	5.9
6	2.1	1.7	12.6	5.4
Mean±SD	2.3±0.3	1.8±0.3	14.1±0.9	5.4±0.6

SD standard deviation