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. 2005 Mar;26(3):447–454.

TABLE 2:

Pool fractions from the myelination model

Region fmy
fma
fmx
fmy/fma
18q− Control 18q− Control 18q− Control 18q− Control
FWM 0.067 ± 0.023 0.171 ± 0.021 0.458 ± 0.035 0.536 ± 0.027 0.474 ± 0.036 0.295 ± 0.018 0.147 0.319
SWM 0.085 ± 0.017 0.183 ± 0.021 0.423 ± 0.022 0.475 ± 0.028 0.493 ± 0.027 0.343 ± 0.021 0.200 0.387
PWM 0.079 ± 0.023 0.186 ± 0.012 0.394 ± 0.059 0.463 ± 0.026 0.526 ± 0.045 0.351 ± 0.022 0.200 0.403
Genu 0.034 ± 0.020 0.155 ± 0.020 0.542 ± 0.025 0.602 ± 0.031 0.423 ± 0.026 0.245 ± 0.026 0.063 0.257
Splenium 0.053 ± 0.015 0.157 ± 0.022 0.515 ± 0.075 0.538 ± 0.052 0.444 ± 0.071 0.304 ± 0.038 0.102 0.292
MCBP 0.043 ± 0.025 0.117 ± 0.022 0.469 ± 0.054 0.461 ± 0.041 0.489 ± 0.047 0.421 ± 0.028 0.091 0.254

Note.—fmy indicates the myelin pool fraction; fma, myelinated axon pool fraction; and fmx, mixed pool fraction. Equilibrium fractions are from the model ± SDs of measured fractions about these values for age >4 years.