Clinical Study

Value of Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging for the Detection of Nephritis

Table 2

Overview of the patient and controls.

PatientsControls

Field strength1.5 T3.0 T1.5 T3.0 T
Gender7 m/5 f2 m/7 f22 m/13 f12 m/13 f
Mean age [years]47.945.954.948.3
Mean ADC kidney [mm²/s] ± SD
Mean ADC inflammatory focus [mm²/s] SD n/an/a

ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient, SD: standard deviation.