BMC Medical Imaging

Table 4 Intraclass correlation coefficient of DT- and KT-indices measured in various ROIs by two raters^a

From: Non-local means based Rician noise filtering for diffusion tensor and kurtosis imaging in human brain and spinal cord

	MK	RK	AK	MD	FA	RD	AD
PUT	0.911	0.749	0.959	0.971	0.856	0.985	0.947
GP	0.893	0.914	0.893	0.956	0.768	0.930	0.905
GM^b	0.992	0.991	0.968	0.967	0.988	0.963	0.980
CC	0.949	0.974	0.962	0.896	0.906	0.906	0.876
IC	0.857	0.910	0.792	0.974	0.744	0.892	0.884
EC	0.910	0.823	0.968	0.987	0.926	0.911	0.978
Cg	0.938	0.971	0.834	0.995	0.982	0.992	0.977
WM^c	0.997	0.995	0.991	0.992	0.996	0.985	0.998
All ROIs	0.996	0.997	0.988	0.994	0.998	0.990	0.999

PUT, putamen; GP, globus pallidus; CC, corpus callosum; IC, internal capsule; EC, external capsule; Cg, cingulum; GM, gray matter; WM, white matter
^aThe p value is < 0.001 for all metrics in all ROIs
^bGM includes PUT and GP
^cWM includes CC, IC, EC and Cg

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