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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Neonatology. 2020 Nov 11;117(6):704–712. doi: 10.1159/000511084

Table 2:

Individual lung specimen details, with findings from 3He gas diffusion MRI (apparent diffusion coefficient, ADC) and quantitative histology (mean linear intercept, Lm).

Subject ID Chronological
age (months)
Sex ADC (cm2/s) a Lm (μm) b
Mean Median SD c IQR d Q1 e Q3 f Mean Median SD c IQR d Q1 e Q3 f
Healthy 1 4 M 0.176 0.176 0.014 0.016 0.168 0.184 185 174 30 40 164 204
Healthy 2 0 (1 day) F 0.111 0.112 0.028 0.030 0.092 0.122 77 73 11 14 70 84
Healthy 3 6 M 0.140 0.141 0.012 0.016 0.132 0.148 119 111 22 19 105 124
Healthy 4 16 M 0.161 0.159 0.017 0.020 0.150 0.170 115 110 15 16 106 122
Healthy 5 0 (1 day) F 0.137 0.134 0.048 0.041 0.117 0.158 148 144 21 25 132 157
Healthy 6 4 M 0.144 0.136 0.049 0.040 0.119 0.159 154 151 15 15 147 162
Healthy 7 14 F 0.116 0.117 0.028 0.036 0.099 0.135 130 129 11 10 123 133
Diseased 1 11 F 0.257 0.252 0.063 0.092 0.211 0.303 587 517 212 179 432 611
a

Apparent diffusion coefficient

b

Mean linear intercept

c

Standard deviation

d

Interquartile range

e

1st quartile

f

3rd quartile