Intercentre reproducibility of cardiac apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy in healthy volunteers

Table 5 Comparison of previously published ADC and FA values with those measured in this study

Reference	Field strength (T)	Voxel size (mm³)	ADC (x10^-3 mm²/s)		FA		Notes
			Healthy volunteers	Disease	Healthy volunteers	Disease
			Healthy volunteers	(% change)	Healthy volunteers	(% change)
Reese et al. [8]	1.5	3 × 3 × 9	0.87 ± 0.11		0.65 ± 0.03
Dou et al. [10]	1.5	4 × 4 × 12	0.60 ± 0.11		0.7 ± 0.1
Tseng et al. [1] (HCM)	1.5	3 × 3 × 3	not reported		0.78	0.75 (-4%)	Free wall
Tseng et al. [1] (HCM)	1.5	3 × 3 × 3	not reported		0.72	0.56 (-22%)	Septum
Wu et al. [2] (MI)	1.5	1.9 × 1.9 × 8	0.65 ± 0.03	0.92 (+46%)	0.33 ± 0.02	0.25 (-26%)	Acute
Wu et al. [2] (MI)	1.5	1.9 × 1.9 × 8	0.65 ± 0.03	0.74 (+17%)	0.33 ± 0.02	0.27 (-21%)	Chronic
Nielles-Vallespin et al. [12]	3.0	2.9 × 2.9 × 8	0.8 ± 0.1	-	0.60 ± 0.04	-
McGill et al. [22] (HCM)	3.0	2.9 × 2.9 × 8	-	0.73 (-9%)	-	0.62 (+3%)
This work	3.0	2.9 × 2.9 × 8	1.10 ± 0.06		0.41 ± 0.04		Systole
This work	3.0	2.9 × 2.9 × 8	1.20 ± 0.09		0.54 ± 0.03		Diastole

Caption: This table includes mean healthy values for systolic ADC and FA (±standard deviation where stated) using monopolar STEAM DT-CMR sequences previously reported in the literature, and changes reported in two diseases: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and acute and chronic myocardial infarction (MI).

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