Changes in magnetic resonance imaging relaxation time on postmortem magnetic resonance imaging of formalin-fixed human normal heart tissue

Table 4 T1- and T2-values of each case

Scan-timing	Case	T1-value	Median / mean ± SD	T2-value	Median/ mean ± SD
Raw scan	2	427.9	411.7/407.5 ± 21.6	77.1	77.1/77.6 ± 6.0
	3	411.7		78.7
	8	453.3		87.6
	9	374.3		69.0
	10	383.5		76.0
	11	418.5		62.4
	12	409.7		73.9
	17	349.7		74.5
	19	403.4		84.6
	20	421.7		82.7
	21	428.4		87.2
Pre-cut scan	2	213.3	226.7/223.2 ± 16.0	59.7	54.4/55.2 ± 3.2
	6	258.1		54.1
	7	224.0		59.6
	8	225.6		53.6
	9	195.2		52.6
	10	231.2		52.3
	11	204.4		62.5
	12	227.8		61.5
	13	234.0		51.0
	14	193.8		51.4
	15	196.1		52.4
	16*	208.2		54.6
	18*	235.6		58.2
	19*	231.7		54.6
	20*	254.7		55.1
	21*	238.0		50.5
Post-cut scan	1	135.5	172.5/175.4 ± 21.3	47.3	51.6/53.4 ± 4.7
	2	144.9		47.8
	3	133.8		50.1
	4	159.0		60.0
	5	160.5		49.3
	6	165.2		53.0
	7	167.9		57.6
	8	194.7		65.0
	10	166.5		48.9
	11	178.3		49.5
	12	178.8		61.5
	16*	177.0		48.3
	17*	221.8		57.3
	18	210.0		55.0
	19	220.0		49.0
	20*	192.7		55.1

^*Consecutive scans were performed under the same conditions. The signal averages of 22 Pre-cut scans of these 5 specimens were taken. The signal averages of 12 Post-cut scans of these 3 specimens were taken (See Table 1)

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