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Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyperthermia. 2019;36(1):1084–1097. doi: 10.1080/02656736.2019.1679893

Table 2.

Absolute error and stability of MR thermometry measured with and without motion in phantoms and in in vivo pig back muscle.

		Absolute Error (°C)			Stability (°C)
		Temporal mean of \|T_mean - Probe			Temporal SD of spatial mean
Experiment	N	Motion	No Motion	p-value	Motion	No Motion	p-value
Phantom
Heating (60 Watts)	3	1.2 ±0.0	0.4 ± 0.1	.0001	1.3 ±0.1	0.5 ±0.0	.0003
No heating (0 Watts)	3	1.0 ±0.3	0.3 ± 0.1	.0307	0.8 ±0.3	0.4 ±0.2	.2010

In vivo
Heating (60–80 Watts)	5	1.2 ±0.4	0.6 ±0.1	.0181	1.4 ±0.6	0.8 ±0.3	.0875
No heating (0 Watts)	7	1.2 ±0.5	0.7 ±0.3	.0181	1.2 ±0.5	0.6 ±0.1	.0029