Anatomical Phase Extraction (APE) Method: A Novel Method to Correct Detrimental Effects of Tissue-Inhomogeneity in Referenceless MR Thermometry—Preliminary Ex Vivo Investigation

Table 2

Mean values and standard deviations for absolute temperature estimation errors, RMSEs, and two-sample -test analysis between multibaseline and proposed APE, referenceless, and referenceless method, respectively.

	ROI1	ROI2	ROI3	value
Proposed APE (°C)
#experiment 1	()	()	()	0.35
#experiment 2	()	()	()	0.40
#experiment 3	()	()	()	0.41
#experiment 4	()	()	()	0.32
RW- referenceless (°C)	()	()	()	< 0.05
referenceless (°C)	()	()	()	< 0.05