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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2019 Nov 12;33(1):e4214. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4214

Table 2.

Mean T1, AdiabT, MTR, MT modeling of macromolecular fraction (f), and T2* for various knee joint tissues including meniscus, femoral cartilage, tibial cartilage, patellar cartilage, quadriceps tendon, patellar tendon, ACL, PCL, and muscle of 15 healthy volunteers before and after elastix motion registration.

T1 (ms) T(ms) MTR (%) f (%) T2*(ms)
Before registration After registration Before registration After registration Beforeregistration Afterregistration Before registration After registration Before registration After registration
Meniscus 820.1±56.7 820.1±57.9 20.1±2.1 20.9±1.5*1 57.0±4.6 58.1±3.1 19.1±2.0 18.9±1.5 11.1±7.9 9.0±1.4
Femoral Cartilage 1118.1±129.4 1152.1±116.0 42.5±8.3 44.2±7.1 47.3±7.0 46.7±5.7 11.3±1.5 10.7±1.6*5 33.3±8.9 39.6±7.9*7
Tibial Cartilage 957.2±114.9 943.8±93.2 33.8±5.3 32.6±4.6 48.6±4.4 49.7±4.0 15.5±6.2 14.3±2.7 24.0±7.2 20.2±4.2*8
Patellar Cartilage 1094.7±110.5 1105.2±117.0 46.1±5.8 46.2±5.1 39.3±8.1 41.1±5.3 9.5±2.0 10.1±1.8*6 34.6±8.8 36.9±8.4*9
Quadriceps tendon 800.5±62.3 802.6±59.6 13.2±2.3 13.3±2.1 47.6±8.8 52.6±7.3*2 18.9±6.2 17.3±2.1 10.5±2.8 10.7±2.8
Patellar Tendon 646.6±53.1 641.6±54.7 9.9±1.6 9.9±1.5 43.5±8.7 46.3±6.1 23.7±9.3 20.2±2.7 5.8±2.3 5.7±2.3
ACL 942.6±138.6 922.3±119.1 25.5±4.2 25.8±3.9 47.1±6.6 48.4±6.5*3 13.7±2.2 14.1±2.2 16.4±4.0 16.3±4.1
PCL 838.6±57.6 839.4±54.0 17.2±3.2 17.4±3.0 53.8±5.9 55.6±5.3*4 16.1±3.6 17.1±1.8 9.2±1.5 8.8±1.6
Muscle 1389.9±71.2 1385.0±69.9 43.3±2.9 43.3±2.9 47.1±2.0 47.3±2.0 7.7±0.6 7.8±0.6 31.2±3.4 31.1±3.5
*1

p=0.026;

*2

p=0.000;

*3

p=0.035;

*4

p=0.010;

*5

p=0.029;

*6

p=0.007;

*7

p=0.007;

*8

p=0.004;

*9

p=0.006.