Table 3.
Patient SNR and CNR
| Suppression Method | SNR |
CNR |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infarct (n = 6) | Fat (n = 16) | Normal Myocardium (n = 16) |
Infarct: Normal Myocardium (n = 6) |
Fat: Normal Myocardium (n = 16) |
|
| Control | 20.6 ± 13.3 | 24.7 ± 15.2 | 4.8 ± 2.3 | 15.5 ± 9.9 | 19.8 ± 13.2 |
| Single-dummy | 19.8 ± 12.5 | 24.6 ± 14.1 | 4.5 ± 3.3 | 15.8 ± 10.2 | 19.8 ± 11.6 |
| SPPRESSa | 20.1 ± 8.1 | 25.1 ± 15.8 | 4.7 ± 2.4 | 15.2 ± 6.2 | 20.2 ± 13.9 |
Numbers are reported as mean ± standard deviation.
a
All values for SPPRESS were not significantly different from single-dummy or control (P > 0.40 for all pairwise comparisons). CNR, contrast-to-noise ratio; SNR, signal-to-noise ratio; SPPRESS, saturation post-pulse readout to eliminate spurious signal.