. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 18.

Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2016 May 10;35(3):688–698. doi: 10.1002/jor.23277

Table 3.

VBR Cross-Sectional Comparison of T_1ρ Between Patients With and Without Baseline Cartilage Lesions or Abnormalities

	Baseline			6 Months
	% volume of significant correlated area (PSV)	% difference of significant correlated area (APD)	Average p-value of significant correlated area	% volume of significant correlated area (PSV)	% difference of significant correlated area (APD)	Average p-value of significant correlated area
MF	15.4	18.2	0.02	33.8	19.5	0.02
MT	13.5	21.5	0.02	11.7	22.4	0.03
LF	8.5	20.4	0.02	8.5	20.3	0.03
LT	27.4	27.8	0.02	22.4	25.2	0.02
TrF	0.8	16.8	0.03	10.3	24.2	0.02
P	2.1	24.9	0.03	0.3	17.6	0.03

MF, medial femoral condyle; MT, medial tibia; LF, lateral femoral condyle; LT, lateral tibia; TrF, trochlea; P, patella. A positive APD indicates that the T_1ρ relaxation times are higher in the group with baseline lesions than thegroup without lesions.