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. 2019 Apr 1;82(2):551–565. doi: 10.1002/mrm.27746

Table 2.

The results of nSNR analysis

Field strength Resolution/P‐values Frontal lobe Parietal lobe Occipital lobe Temporal lobe Cerebellum Sub. cortical WM Sub. cortical GM Brain stem Whole brain
1.5T Low 1.991 2.359 3.367 6.057 5.356 6.686 3.034 3.188 4.461
Intermediate 3.533 2.540 5.957 8.723 6.800 9.470 6.043 4.055 6.779
High 3.471 3.242 7.024 9.214 8.958 9.991 6.966 6.148 7.872
Low vs. inter. <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Low vs. high <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
High vs. inter 0.360 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
3T Low 2.437 5.084 6.413 7.884 10.742 9.395 4.725 5.177 7.162
Intermediate 5.322 6.346 9.607 12.362 12.273 13.514 7.541 5.677 10.192
High 5.872 8.150 12.437 15.073 15.639 14.452 9.366 8.849 12.820
Low vs. inter. <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Low vs. high <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
High vs. inter 0.006 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
7T Low 2.746 5.820 6.921 9.706 11.842 10.556 5.344 5.436 8.034
Intermediate 6.203 6.857 11.778 15.724 14.100 17.070 8.932 5.870 12.133
High 9.259 11.953 18.352 22.193 23.563 25.039 12.422 9.952 18.728
Low vs. inter. <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Low vs. high <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
High vs. inter <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
9.4T Low 2.798 4.816 7.607 10.717 11.716 14.633 5.330 4.739 8.787
Intermediate 6.105 6.202 13.087 17.028 15.351 21.924 8.407 5.282 12.860
High 7.925 9.377 17.504 21.256 19.224 25.542 11.459 8.873 16.976
Low vs. inter. <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Low vs. high <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
High vs. inter <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001

The nSNR results of the high and intermediate resolution of all B 0 fields were downsampled to the low spatial resolution to allow pairwise comparison. Median of nSNR of brain sub‐regions as well as whole brain and P‐values from a comparison of spatial resolutions are presented.