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Table 2 Comparison between 1.5T TLE groups and 1.5T HCs

From: Evaluation of the diagnostic utility on 1.5T and 3.0T 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy for temporal lobe epilepsy

Metabolite ratio

Left temporal pole

Right temporal pole

TLE

HCs

P value

TLE

HCs

P value

NAA/Cr

1.423 ± 0.173

1.926 ± 0.305

< 0.001

1.469 ± 0.263

1.855 ± 0.231

< 0.001

NAA/Cho

1.065 ± 0.206

1.394 ± 0.217

< 0.001

1.125 ± 0.244

1.507 ± 0.234

< 0.001

NAA/(Cho + Cr)

0.606 ± 0.091

0.804 ± 0.109

< 0.001

0.631 ± 0.109

0.825 ± 0.091

< 0.001

Cho/Cr

1.366 ± 0.218

1.398 ± 0.229

0.498

1.339 ± 0.258

1.254 ± 0.230

0.265