Table 2:

Summary of patient data for mean diffusivity (MD) from different regions of brain parenchyma collected from 10 age- and sex-matched controls and 21 patients of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

GroupsCorpus CallosumFWMPWMOWMTWMPLIC
GenuBodySplenium
a. Controls (n = 10)0.80 ± 0.030.88 ± 0.050.79 ± 0.060.75 ± 0.050.70 ± 0.040.71 ± 0.040.74 ± 0.050.67 ± 0.03
b. PNCI (n = 11)0.85 ± 0.050.96 ± 0.130.90 ± 0.110.80 ± 0.030.79 ± 0.060.78 ± 0.080.72 ± 0.050.71 ± 0.04
c. PACI (n = 10)0.90 ± 0.240.94 ± 0.100.87 ± 0.200.85 ± 0.130.86 ± 0.170.87 ± 0.130.83 ± 0.130.70 ± 0.07
P (MD)*Pab = .02Pab = .11Pabt = .03Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .00Pab = .32Pab = .07
Pac = .25Pac = .14Pac = .29Pac = .01Pac = .00Pac = .00Pac = .01Pac = .40
Pbc = .45Pbc = .75Pbc = .73Pbc = .17Pbc = .15Pbc = .01Pbc = .00Pbc = .61
  • Note:—PNCI indicates patients with normal conventional imaging; PACI, patients with abnormal conventional imaging; FWM, frontal white matter; PWM, parietal white matter; OWM, occipital white matter; TWM, temporal white matter; PLIC, posterior limb of internal capsule. Values are means ± SD.

  • * For MD values (expressed in ×10−3 mm2/s), Pab indicates a P value a vs b; Pbc, P value b vs c; Pac, P value a vs c.