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Table 1 Comparisons of liver T1rho values between different time points in fibrosis group

From: Liver injury monitoring, fibrosis staging and inflammation grading using T1rho magnetic resonance imaging: an experimental study in rats with carbon tetrachloride intoxication

Time of scan

No. of Rats

T1rho range (mean ± SD, ms)

P1 value

P2 value

baseline

31

35.99–46.85 (40.72 ± 3.08)

  

Week 2

10

43.14–64.51 (50.40 ± 7.24)

< 0.001

< 0.001

Week 4

31

41.35–58.16 (48.65 ± 4.46)

< 0.001

0.643

Week 6

24

38.91–69.59 (50.95 ± 6.12)

< 0.001

0.114

Week 8

17

47.77–64.39 (56.09 ± 4.68)

< 0.001

0.004

Week 10

12

45.53–55.66 (50.81 ± 3.23)

< 0.001

0.002

Week 12

7

37.94–56.95 (49.44 ± 7.05)

0.004

0.902

  1. Notes: Time of scan is the time of MRI scan after CCl4 injection. P1 and P2 values denote the significance level in the Mann-Whitney U test between T1rho values in this time point and T1rho values in baseline and adjacent previous time point, separately