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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2018 Oct;53(10):609–615. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000466

Table 1.

Comparison of low and standard dose DCE-MRI parameters in PCa diagnosis

MEP (%) Alpha (% per sec)
Standard dose Low dose Standard dose Low dose
Normal Tissue 93.8 ± 42.5 28.9 ± 16.3 3.35 ± 1.48 5.12 ± 2.95
Prostate Cancer 110.2 ± 49.4 33.3 ± 11.6 4.27 ± 2.20 9.98 ± 5.84
p value (t-test) 0.17 0.24 0.06 < 0.001
Area under the curve
(ROC analysis)
0.626
p = 0.09
[0.484, 0.769]
0.629
p = 0.09
[0.489, 0.768]
0.625
p = 0.10
[0.483, 0.767]
0.769
p < 0.001
[0.648, 0.890]