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Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2020 Sep 2;31(3):1336–1346. doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-07214-9

Table 2:

Mean MRI (T2w, ADC), MRF (T1, T2), and Tissue Component Density Estimates within Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis and normal peripheral zone (PZ) ROIs; correlations with IPG

Parameter	Mean within ROIs						ANOVA
	Prostate Cancer (PCa), N = 33			Correlation with IPGs	Prostatitis, N = 23	Normal PZ, IM = 24	F statistic	p-value
	IPG 1	IPG 2,3	IPG 4,5	Correlation with IPGs	Prostatitis, N = 23	Normal PZ, IM = 24	F statistic	p-value

% Epithelium	0.32 ± 0.05	0.47 ± 0.12	0.69 ± 0.06	0.89^*	0.35 ± 0.07	0.24 ± 0.09	35.1	<0.0001
% Lumen	0.17 ± 0.03	0.14 ± 0.04	0.08 ± 0.03	−0.71^*	0.18 ± 0.05	0.20 ± 0.06	6.26	0.0002
% Stroma	0.48 ± 0.1	0.41± 0.1	0.22 ± 0.06	−0.73^*	0.46 ± 0.07	0.56 ± 0.1	14.3	<0.0001
T2w	133 ± 23.4	129 ± 29.8	117 ± 11.52	−0.23	140 ± 37.6	217 ± 68	13.75	<0.0001
ADC	841 ± 112.4	758 ± 97.8	634 ± 61.1	−0.56	968 ± 133	1372 ± 233	47.37	<0.0001
T1 MRF	1643 ± 115	1568 ± 226	1528 ± 178	−0.34	1690 ± 154	1913 ± 350	6.36	0.0002
T2 MRF	54 ± 7.6	53 ± 15.3	38 ± 9.8	−0.39^*	74 ± 17.6	95 ± 28	17.4	<0.0001

Note: indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)