TABLE 2.

The correlation between quantitative parameters and MMSE scores in AD patients.

	r	p
Brain segmentation
CSF (ml)	–0.664	0.003*
BPV (ml)	0.696	0.001*
BPV/ICV	0.689	0.002*
T1 value (ms)
Left insula cortex	–0.673	0.010*
Right insula cortex	–0.564	0.041*
Left hippocampus	–0.651	0.012*
Right hippocampus	–0.693	0.010*
T2 value (ms)
Left hippocampus	–0.758	0.004*
Right hippocampus	–0.631	0.035*

*p < 0.05; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; MMSE, mini-mental state examination; BPV, brain parenchymal volume; ICV, intracranial volume.