Table 1.

The calculated Y_v at IJV of each participant with SCA based on different T₂ calibrations. The numbers in the brackets show the normalized differences between the grouped calibrations and the individual calibrations.

		individual calibration	Bush-Wood’s group calibration for sickle blood*	Bush-Wood’s group calibration for normal blood*	Lu’s group calibration for normal blood
	1	0.43	0.51 (21%)	0.33 (−22%)	0.19 (−56%)
	2	0.66	0.60 (−8.9%)	0.52 (−21%)	0.54 (−19%)
	3	0.54	0.64 (20%)	0.53 (−0.7%)	0.50 (−6.2%)
	4	0.66	0.70 (6.5%)	0.59 (−10%)	0.53 (−19 %)
Participants	5	0.59	0.55 (−6.3%)	0.43 (−28%)	0.38 (−36%)
with SCA	6	0.59	0.61 (3.9%)	0.50 (−15%)	0.46 (−22%)
	7	0.63	0.63 (−0.5%)	0.53 (−17%)	0.51 (−20%)
	8	0.70	0.65 (−7.5%)	0.55 (−22 %)	0.52 (−25%)
	9	0.66	0.68 (2.3%)	0.55 (−16%)	0.48 (−28%)
	10	0.63	0.64 (1.0%)	0.48 (−23%)	0.35 (−44 %)
	11	0.65	0.66 (1.6%)	0.53 (−18%)	0.45 (−30%)
Average+/−STD		0.61+/−0.08	0.63+/−0.05	0.50+/−0.07	0.45+/−0.10

^* Our measured T_2,corr values were converted based on Eq. 2 to T_2,app that is suitable for Bush-Wood’s and Lu’s cablibrations for normal blood.