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. 2020 Mar 6;37(6):889–898. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6731

Table 3.

1-DPI and 30-DPI MRI Metrics as Predictors for 90-DPI BBB Score

 
 
90-dpi BBB
90-dpi BBB (sham excluded)
Time point Metric R2 p value R2 p value
1 dpi fADC|| DDE-PRESS 0.375 <0.001* 0.436 0.001*
fADC|| image based 0.219 0.009* 0.049 0.320
AWF 0.000 0.943 0.011 0.654
T2 0.069 0.161 0.210 0.032*
CSA 0.001 0.884 0.029 0.446
Hemorrhage area 0.031 0.354 0.110 0.131
30 dpi fADC|| DDE-PRESS 0.246 0.006* 0.197 0.050*
fADC|| image based 0.462 0.001* 0.270 0.047*
AWF 0.644 <0.001* 0.533 0.003*
T2 0.178 0.040* 0.067 0.333
CSA 0.415 0.001* 0.291 0.031*
Hemorrhage area 0.001 0.915 0.109 0.211
*

Indicates significance of p < 0.05.

dpi, days post-injury; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; BBB, Basso, Beattie, and Bresnahan; fADC||, “filtered” parallel diffusivity from imaged-based DDE; DDE, double-diffusion encoding; PRESS, point-resolved single-voxel spectroscopy; AWF, axonal water fraction; CSA, cross-sectional area;