Statistical Evaluations of the Reproducibility and Reliability of 3-Tesla High Resolution Magnetization Transfer Brain Images: A Pilot Study on Healthy Subjects
Table 5
Descriptive statistics and 95-percentile normality range of mean ROI values.
Region of Interest
Descriptive Statistics (Mean SD)
95% Normality Range (Mean 2 SD)
Genu
77.0 1.0
75.0–79.0
Splenium
72.8 1.5
69.9–75.7
Left Hippocampus
51.5 2.5
46.6–56.4
Left Caudate
59.5 2.2
55.2–63.8
Left Putamen
62.0 2.0
58.1–65.9
Left Thalamus
61.6 2.3
57.1–66.1
Left Cerebral White Matter
73.2 1.2
70.8–75.6
Right Hippocampus
52.0 3.3
45.5–58.5
Right Caudate
61.3 1.7
58.0–64.6
Right Putamen
62.8 1.5
59.9–65.7
Right Thalamus
61.1 2.5
56.2–66.0
Right Cerebral White Matter
73.0 1.3
70.5–75.5
Note: Results were pooled among all 72 observations within each region of interest. SD: standard deviation.
