Table 1 Mean (± SD) values of the standard diffusion tensor (DTI) metrics axial/radial/mean diffusivity (AD/RD/MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) metrics axial/radial/mean kurtosis (AK/RK/MK), quantitative magnetisation transfer (qMT) metrics bound pool fraction and bound pool transverse relaxation time (BPF/T2B) and quantitative longitudinal relaxation time (qT1), in the sciatic nerve of 12 healthy volunteers.

From: Feasibility of in vivo multi-parametric quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of the healthy sciatic nerve with a unified signal readout protocol

qMRI metrics

Mean (± SD)

AD, in μm2 ms-1

3.113 (0.001)

MD, in μm2 ms-1

1.670 (0.001)

RD, in μm2 ms-1

0.948 (0.001)

FA, in nu

0.649 (0.063)

AK, in nu

0.734 (0.088)

MK, in nu

0.844 (0.119)

RK, in nu

0.877 (0.186)

qT1, in ms

1635 (0.058)

BPF, in nu

0.054 (0.014)

T2B, in μs

9.975 (1.563)

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