Table 3.
Mean value (±standard deviation) and percent error induced in the amide proton exchange rate (ksw) or the semi-solid proton volume fraction (fss) by errors in the water T1 (T1w), water T2 (T2w), semi-solid T2 (T2ss) and B1 parameters considered individually and in all possible combinations.
Variable ksw | Variable fss | |||
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Fixed parameters | Mean ksw (Hz) | Error (%) | Mean fss (Hz) | Error (%) |
None | 35.4±4.4 | 1.1 | 10.6±2.8 | 5.7 |
T1w | 39.0±11.3 | 11.5 | 10.8±3.5 | 8.2 |
T2w | 37.6±9.0 | 7.3 | 10.2±3.2 | 1.6 |
T2ss | 36.7±11.2 | 4.8 | 9.9±3.7 | 0.9 |
B1 | 37.1±10.1 | 5.9 | 10.3±3.4 | 3.4 |
T1w, T2w | 42.8±19.4 | 22.1 | 10.0±4.1 | 0.4 |
T1w, T2ss | 39.3±16.9 | 12.3 | 9.8±3.6 | 1. 7 |
T1w, B1 | 41.8±16.5 | 19.3 | 10.6±3.6 | 5.8 |
T1w, T2w, T2ss | 42.5±21.6 | 21.5 | 9.9±4.2 | 0.6 |
T1w, T2w, B1 | 44.5±22.6 | 27.0 | 9.8±4.3 | 1.9 |
T2w, T2ss, B1 | 39.9±25.0 | 13.9 | 10.7±5.5 | 7.4 |
All | 37.3±30.1 | 6.5 | 9.7±4.7 | 2.7 |