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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 3.

Comparison of the accuracy and stability of MR thermometry evaluated in this study with other references (A) and the estimated diffusivity generated with our model compared with other studies (B).

A	Study	Model	Accuracy (°C)	Stability (°C)
	Our Study	Pigs	0.6 ± 0.2	0.7 ± 0.2
	Our Study	Phantom	0.4 ± 0.1	0.5 ± 0.1
	Tillander	Pigs	−0.7 ± 0.9	0.8
	Chu	Pigs	−0.2 ± 0.3	0.6 ± 0.5
	Chu	Volunteer	1.1 ± 0.4	0.7 ± 0.4
	Zhang	Pigs	N/A	1.1 ± 0.2
	Zhang	Patients	N/A	1.2 ± 0.4
B	Study	Model	Diffusivity (mm²/s)
	Our Study	Pigs	0.17
	Our Study	Phantom	0.16
	Dragonu	Porcine kidney	0.17 ± 0.00
	Dillon	Porcine thigh	0.15 ± 0.02
		Porcine thigh	0.15 ± 0.01
		Rabbit	0.15 ± 0.01
		Phantom	0.15 ± 0.00
	Zhang	Pigs	0.14 ± 0.01
	Zhang	Patients	0.12 ± 0.02