Table 1:
Average, standard deviation (SD), and range of the measured parameters from bicomponent and tricomponent T2* fitting in the studied cortical bone specimens. The significance level of the differences were calculated t student test.
| Bicomponent model | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frac BW | T2* BW | Frac PW | T2* PW | R2-fitting | |||
| Ave±SD | 73.9±7.2 | 0.26±0.04 | 26.1±7.2 | 4.93±1.45 | 0.9798±0.0238 | ||
| [range] | [55.0, 88.8] | [0.18, 0.42] | [11.2, 45.0] | [1.75, 10.38] | [0.9112,0.9990] | ||
| Tricomponent model | |||||||
| Frac BW | T2* BW | Frac PW | T2* PW | Frac Fat | T2* Fat | R2-fitting | |
| Ave±SD | 59.6±11.3 | 0.21±0.06 | 28.3±7.2 | 4.04±1.43 | 12.1±6.2 | 5.46±5.43 | 0.9966±0.0045 |
| [range] | [32.8, 84.7] | [0.10, 0.43] | [12.1, 45.8] | [1.77, 12.29] | [0.8, 24.6] | [1.27, 29.98] | [0.9811,0.9998] |
|
p-value t-test |
<0.01 | 0.17 | 0.11 | <0.01 | <0.01 | ||