Table 2.
Correlation coefficients (r) of the strain (S), build-up (pRT) and release rates (nRT) with water T2 (T2) and fat fraction (FF) in the vastus lateralis (VL) and vastus intermedius (VI).
| Versus | Correlation Coefficients r (p-value) | Summary values Mean ± standard deviation |
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| Strain | Build-up rate | Release rate | T2 (ms)/FF(%) in FSHD patients | T2 (ms)/FF(%) in healthy controls | |
| T2VL | 0.204 (0.207) | −0.262 (0.103) | −0.236 (0.143) | 43.13 ± 8.61 | 39.44 ± 2.83 |
| T2VI | 0.215 (0.176) | −0.256 (0.107) | −0.202 (0.206) | 44.22 ± 7.89 | 39.20 ± 1.95 |
| FFVL | 0.151 (0.339) | −0.184 (0.243) | −0.127 (0.423) | 14.59 ± 18.02 | 6.39 ± 2.54 |
| FFVI | −0.161 (0.309) | 0.097 (0.541) | 0.27 (0.083) | 15.34 ± 18.94 | 5.01 ± 2.06 |
The significance level corrected for multiple comparisons was 0.0042. The number of datasets used were: (FSHD patients: 25 datasets (t0), 17(t1), 9(t2) & healthy controls (7(t0.))).