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The pulse repetition time used in this study is insufficient to allow full recovery of the MR signal, but since T1 relaxation is orthogonal to T2, the only penalty imposed, assuming the T1 time of IEW, and myelin water are similar, was lower SNR for shorter scantime. Rats were anesthetized with isoflurane (4% during induction, 1.5 - 2.5% for maintenance during imaging using a humidified 30/70 oxygen/nitrogen mixture). Respiratory rate was maintained between 60 and 90 breaths per minute, and the rectal temperature http://www.selleckchem.com/products/INCB18424.html was maintained at 37 �� 0.5 ��C using heated air circulated through the bore of the magnet regulated by a temperature feedback system (Model 1025; Small Animal Instruments Inc, Stonybrook, NY). All experimental procedures were performed in accordance with guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care and were approved by the local experimental ethics committee. ROIs, encompassing the corpus callosum were drawn using AnalyzeNNLS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ analyzennls/). Three types of analyses were performed: rrNNLS, rmNNLS, and nmNNLS. The qT2 measures were compared between each analysis method using a one-way repeated-measures ANOVA with Bonferroni posthoc testing, where P http://www.selleckchem.com/products/PLX-4032.html Table 1 show the results of the digital decay simulations with gaussian and Rician noise. The NNLS fit for gaussian noise overestimated the MWF, and the other analysis methods underestimated the MWF. All analysis methods underestimated the IEW gm T2. These over/underestimates worsened as SNR decreased. The magnitude of the inaccuracy of the MWF estimate was smaller for NNLS than for rNNLS at each SNR level for a given noisetype. Regularization generally reduced the variance within the qT2 measures. The digital phantom simulation results are summarized in Table 2. For both SNR scenarios and noisetypes, rrNNLS and rmNNLS underestimated the true MWF at a significant level (P ? 0.001). The nmNNLS analysis workflow for gaussian noise differed from the true value at a significant level (P http://www.selleck.cn/products/U0126.html was significantly different from 7% for 97 SNR and was not significantly different for 298 SNR. nmNNLS gave MWFs closest to the true value in all cases. For all cases, the IEW gm T2 was less than the true value at a significant level (P ? 0.001), although nmNNLS provided values closest to the true value. The results for in vivo measures of MWF are summarized in the bottom row of Table 2. The nmNNLS approach yielded the largest MWF, which was consistent with the digital phantom results. The MWFs measured using the nmNNLS analysis workflow were significantly different from the MWFs measured using rrNNLS and rmNNLS (P = 0.01 and P = 0.02, respectively). rrNNLS and rmNNLS were not significantly different from each other.