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Table 3 Means ± standard deviation, statistical significances and effect sizes of myocardial T2, pixel-SD and statistically derived parameters

From: Mapping tissue inhomogeneity in acute myocarditis: a novel analytical approach to quantitative myocardial edema imaging by T2-mapping

Parameter

Healthy volunteers

ACM patients

p-value

Effect size r

Global myocardial T2 [ms]

58.7 ± 4.2

62.1 ± 7.2

.026

.31

Global pixel-SD [ms]

7.7 ± 1.9

8.5 ± 2.4

.166

.18

maxT2 [ms]

69.6 ± 8.5

80.5 ± 16.8

.003

.43

madT2

0.07 ± 0.03

0.09 ± 0.02

.060

.26

maxSD [ms]

12.5 ± 4.2

19.0 ± 8.6

.001

.50

madSD

0.22 ± 0.05

0.29 ± 0.06

.001

.56