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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Oct 2;30(1):125. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1309

Table 6.

Correlation coefficients between brain metrics head circumference and volumetric data

Tissue measures Fluid measures

Pearson correlation Bifrontal Diameter Left Frontal Height Right Frontal Height Brain Biparietal diameter Transverse cerebellar Diameter IHD Right Ventricle Diameter Left Ventricle Diameter Third Ventricle
Total Tissue (noCSF) - 0.663** 0.357** 0.331** 0.626** 0.707** 0.027 0.079 −0.034 0.234**
Cortical Gray Matter 0.482** 0.144* 0.132 0.538** 0.658** 0.018 0.048 −0.049 0.133
Myelinated White Matter 0.023 −0.030 −0.038 0.103 0.112 −0.070 0.093 0.076 0.126
Unmyelinated White Matter 0.589** 0.455** 0.421** 0.446** 0.441** 0.037 0.099 0.016 0.247**
Basal Ganglia 0.413** 0.325** 0.319** 0.371** 0.427** 0.006 −0.204** −0.247** 0.053
Cerebrospinal Fluid 0.088 0.111 0.108 0.135 0.082 0.478** 0.482** 0.481** 0.520**
Head Circumference 0.549** 0.279** 0.239** 0.465** 0.558** 0.216** 0.168* 0.09 0.312**
**

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

*

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

IHD; Inter Hemispheric Distance