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Table 1 Relative Fat SNR, Cavity and Myocardial SNR

From: Highly effective fat suppression in clinical T1-weighted imaging of ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease with DeSPAIR

field strength

1.5T

3T

sup-pression method

NONE

FS

DeSPAIR

NONE

FS

DeSPAIR

relative fat SNR

100%

101.63% ± 29.92% #

39.52% ± 19.87% *

100% *

68.79% ± 28.88% *

32.72% ± 15.53% *

cavity SNR

19.75 ± 10.29

25.13 ± 12.41 #

16.91 ± 9.28 #

49.82 ± 37.16

49.26 ± 32.29 #

44.92 ± 32.95 #

myocardial SNR

3.78 ± 2.40

5.59 ± 3.28 #

3.85 ± 2.05 #

7.46 ± 5.36

6.79 ± 4.44 #

6.49 ± 5.34 #

  1. shown: mean ± stdev *: statistically different from NONE (p < 0.001) #: statistically identical to NONE (p > 0.05).