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Table 1 ROI area (mean ± SD) for all animals with detected flow signal (n = 11), and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for ROIs manually defined two months apart by the same investigator using a sample of ten PC-MRIs

From: Characterising spinal cerebrospinal fluid flow in the pig with phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging

 

Dorsal SAS

Ventral SAS

ROI area for C2/C3 (mm2)

14.9 ± 4.9

10.1 ± 5.0

ROI area for T8/T9 (mm2)

10.0 ± 4.2

10.3 ± 3.6

ROI area for T11/T12 (mm2)

10.6 ± 2.3

10.9 ± 4.3

ROI area for L1/L2 (mm2)

10.8 ± 4.1

12.9 ± 3.2

ICC: ROI area

0.899

0.901

ICC: Peak diastolic flow

0.953

0.944

ICC: Peak systolic flow

0.977

0.944

  1. ROI region of interest, SAS subarachnoid space, PC-MRI phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging