Table 4:

Quantitative analysis of lumbar spine data from volunteers and clinical subjects

	Sequence	Vertebral Body SNR	Vertebral Body SNR Efficiency	Vertebrae-Disc Relative Contrast	SAR
Healthy volunteers	TSE	36.08 ± 7.51	19.48 ± 4.05	0.47 ± 0.33	1.69 ± 0.14
Healthy volunteers	TSE-VFA	27.81 ± 4.33	22.94 ± 3.57	0.45 ± 0.32	1.31 ± 0.21
Clinical patients	TSE	55.45 ± 18.75	29.93 ± 10.12	0.13 ± 0.69	1.84 ± 0.61
Clinical patients	TSE-VFA	45.18 ± 14.96	37.27 ± 12.34	0.12 ± 0.7	1.37 ± 0.34