Table 4 Whole-brain within- and between-subject coefficients of variation of normalization to a baseline examination, internally to the cerebellum, or externally to phantoms
From: Repeatability of deuterium metabolic imaging of healthy volunteers at 3 T
Within-subject CoV (%) | Between-subject CoV (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normalization | Normalization | |||||
Resonance | Baseline | Cerebellum | Phantoms | Baseline | Cerebellum | Phantoms |
Water | 5.4 | 4.2 | 17.3 | 12.2 | 5.7 | 44.2 |
Glucose | 11.7 | 6.1 | 18.8 | 19.3 | 9.8 | 44.7 |
Glx | 8.9 | 7 | 13.7 | 17.7 | 10 | 40.1 |
Lactate | 8.9 | 11 | 14.4 | 20.7 | 14.2 | 44.9 |