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Published in final edited form as: Connect Tissue Res. 2014 Mar 21;55(3):205–216. doi: 10.3109/03008207.2014.894997

Table 5.

Correlation r values of strain versus the ratio of the parameter changes for the meniscus covered (C) and uncovered (UC) regions.

	Relative thickness (%)		T2(0°) (ms)		T2(55°) (ms)		T1Gd (s)		GAG (mg/ml)
	C	UC	C	UC	C	UC	C	UC	C	UC
Bulk			0.362	0.513	0.575	0.280	0.369	0.584	0.355	0.570
SZ	0.194^a	0.199^a	0.377	0.184	0.691	0.066^a	0.738	0.526	0.899	0.467
TZ	0.684	0.769	0.808	0.494	0.713	0.471	0.873	0.665	0.898	0.640
RZ1	0.389	0.696	0.752	0.796	0.552	0.841	0.848	0.866	0.864	0.878
RZ2	0.389	0.760	0.384	0.666	0.021^a	0.643	0.046^a	0.017^a	0.266	0.012^a

Not statistically significant correlated (correlation probability >0.05) between the strain and the ratio of the parameter changes from the paired Student’s t-test. Otherwise, they were statistically significant correlated (correlation probability <0.05).