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Table 1 Measurements from Mn-labeled regions, above and below the lesion, and at the epicenter of the injury.

From: Imaging corticospinal tract connectivity in injured rat spinal cord using manganese-enhanced MRI

 

Above the lesion

Epicenter

Below the lesion

Trace/3 (× 10-3 mm2/s)

0.69 ± 0.05

0.59 ± 0.07

0.64 ± 0.06

FA

0.88 ± 0.08

0.79 ± 0.13

0.85 ± 0.10

  1. Trace/3: average of the three principal eigenvalues of the diffusion tensor. FA: fractional anisotropy index. The statistics are given as mean ± standard deviation.
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BMC Medical Imaging

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