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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 Jan 11;50(1):52–61. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26635

Table 4.

Correlations between ADC, MPF, and GA in the anatomic structures of the fetal brain.

Structure	Bivariate correlation, r (P)
Structure	ADC-GA	MPF-GA	ADC-MPF
Medulla	−0.49 (0.001)^a	0.89 (<0.001)^ab	−0.46 (0.002)^a
Pons	−0.43 (0.004)^a	0.83 (<0.001)^ab	−0.32 (0.04)^a
Thalamus	−0.75 (<0.001)^a	0.84 (<0.001)^a	−0.60 (<0.001)^a
Cerebellum	−0.52 (<0.001)^a	0.84 (<0.001)^ab	−0.37 (0.015)^a
Frontal WM	−0.09 (0.58)	−0.26 (0.10)	−0.15 (0.34)
Temporal WM	−0.17 (0.27)	0.17 (0.29)	−0.20 (0.21)
Occipital WM	−0.12 (0.45)	−0.05 (0.75)	−0.13 (0.42)

Significant correlations.

Significant differences between ADC and MPF in their correlations with GA according to the Hotelling-Williams test for absolute values of r (P < 0.003).