Clinical Study

Brain Perfusion MRI Findings in Patients with Behcet’s Disease

Table 2

Statistically significant differences in perfusion parameters are presented.

LocationsGroup 1 (n : 12)Group 2 (n : 22)Group 3 (n : 16)

PonsMTT 1 5 , 5 6 ± 7 , 3 4 𝛼 , ¥ 1 1 , 0 5 ± 4 , 2 0 𝛼 , 𝛽 7 , 7 1 ± 1 , 9 9 𝛽 , ¥
rCBF 0 , 2 0 ± 0 , 1 1 ¥ 0 , 2 2 ± 0 , 0 8 𝛽 0 , 3 3 ± 0 , 1 4 𝛽 , ¥
Cerebral pediclerCBV 4 , 2 6 ± 2 , 8 2 𝛼 , ¥ 2 , 6 8 ± 1 , 5 8 𝛼 2 , 7 7 ± 1 , 1 2 ¥
MTT 1 5 , 1 0 ± 7 , 9 7 𝛼 , ¥ 1 0 , 4 3 ± 5 , 0 6 𝛼 8 , 6 4 ± 3 , 2 4 ¥
Temporal lobe white matterMTT 1 9 , 5 4 ± 1 0 , 9 0 𝛽 , ¥ 1 7 , 9 7 ± 9 , 2 0 𝛽 1 0 , 7 1 ± 5 , 0 5 𝛽 , ¥
rCBF 0 , 3 5 ± 0 , 1 5 𝛽 , ¥ 0 , 3 9 ± 0 , 1 5 𝛽 0 , 5 5 ± 0 , 2 2 𝛽 , ¥
Corpus striatumMTT 1 1 , 7 3 ± 4 , 1 6 ¥ 9 , 5 3 ± 6 , 5 4 6 , 7 5 ± 1 , 6 0 ¥
rCBF 0 , 2 2 ± 0 , 1 4 ¥ 0 , 2 1 ± 0 , 1 1 𝛽 0 , 3 1 ± 0 , 1 2 𝛽 , ¥
Internal capsul posterior limbMTT 1 6 , 4 9 ± 1 4 , 2 2 ¥ 1 3 , 1 4 ± 7 , 0 4 7 , 9 0 ± 5 , 4 5 ¥
rCBF 0 , 1 9 ± 0 , 0 9 ¥ 0 , 1 8 ± 0 , 0 7 𝛽 0 , 3 0 ± 0 , 1 1 𝛽 , ¥
Periventricular white matterMTT 1 5 , 6 5 ± 5 , 3 7 ¥ 1 1 , 7 9 ± 7 , 7 0 8 , 1 6 ± 3 , 0 3 ¥
rCBF 0 , 1 5 ± 0 , 0 9 ¥ 0 , 1 3 ± 0 , 0 5 𝛽 0 , 2 0 ± 0 , 0 6 𝛽 , ¥
Parietal cortexMTT 1 3 , 5 6 ± 6 , 7 3 ¥ 1 1 , 3 8 ± 4 , 4 3 𝛽 7 , 8 0 ± 3 , 1 8 𝛽 , ¥
rCBF 0 , 2 4 ± 0 , 0 7 ¥ 0 , 2 6 ± 0 , 1 1 𝛽 0 , 3 7 ± 0 , 1 4 𝛽 , ¥
CerebellumrCBF 0 , 1 8 ± 0 , 0 9 ¥ 0 , 2 3 ± 0 , 0 9 𝛽 0 , 3 2 ± 0 , 1 1 𝛽 , ¥

(a) Group 1 compared with group 2α
(b) Group 2 compared with group 3β
(c) Group 1 compared with group 3¥.