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. 2018 Sep 6;7:27–31. doi: 10.1016/j.phro.2018.08.001

Table 2.

Marker displacements between gold standard registrations and marker-based registrations.

Gold-std. registrations: Fully sampled MR Marker-based registrations: Breath-hold MR Mean offset and standard deviation
Phase Enc. (A/P) Slice Sel. (S/I) Readout (R/L)
MR sequence
(N = 16)
T1w 0.7 ± 0.3 0.1 ± 0.9 0.0 ± 0.3
T2*w −0.4 ± 0.5 0.0 ± 0.6 0.1 ± 0.4
T2w 0.1 ± 0.3 1.0 ± 0.9 0.6 ± 0.5
One way ANOVA result p < 0.001 p = 2.8 × 103 p < 0.001



Marker arrangement
(N = 24)
Coplanar 0.3 ± 0.5 0.6 ± 0.9 0.3 ± 0.5
Non-coplanar 0.1 ± 0.7 0.2 ± 0.9 0.1 ± 0.4
2 sample t-test result p = 0.04 p = 0.13 p = 0.07



Test object orientation
(N = 24)
Horizontal 0.1 ± 0.7 0.1 ± 0.6 0.0 ± 0.4
Vertical 0.1 ± 0.5 0.7 ± 1.1 0.4 ± 0.4
2 sample t-test result p = 0.94 p = 0.02 p < 0.001

Results are listed with the p-value from the relevant statistical significance test performed. Here N is the number of measurements. Values shown in bold indicate results which reject the null hypothesis of a population mean equal to zero using a one-sample t-test (p < 0.05).