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. 2020 Sep 18;20(4):450–456. doi: 10.2463/mrms.tn.2020-0061

Table 1.

Spearman’s rank correlation of ADC and FA values between NAQ1 and NAQ5, and between dDLR-NAQ1 and NAQ5

ADC FA


ρ P ρ P
Corpus callosum
  NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.66 < 0.001 0.81 < 0.001
  dDLR-NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.77 < 0.001 0.84 < 0.001
Deep WM
  NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.69 < 0.001 0.94 < 0.001
  dDLR-NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.76 < 0.001 0.95 < 0.001
Periventricular WM
  NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.88 < 0.001 0.93 < 0.001
  dDLR-NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.88 < 0.001 0.94 < 0.001
Deep GM
  NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.75 < 0.001 0.23 0.15
  dDLR-NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.78 < 0.001 0.38 0.016
Cortical GM
  NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.82 < 0.001 0.79 < 0.001
  dDLR-NAQ1 vs. NAQ5 0.78 < 0.001 0.74 < 0.001

ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; dDLR, denoising approach with deep learning-based reconstruction; FA, fractional anisotropy; GM, gray matter; NAQ, number of image acquisitions; WM, white matter.