TABLE 3

Correlations of B_max to Age in Healthy Subjects

	Left		Right		Merged
Striatal subdivisions	BPIT	TEM	BPIT	TEM	BPIT	TEM
Anterior putamen
Pearson correlation coefficient	−0.477	−0.424	−0.417	−0.338	−0.433	−0.375
P	0.000701^*	0.00298^*	0.00361^*	0.0201	0.00239^*	0.0095^*
Rates of decline	0.49%	0.48%	0.45%	Not significant	0.47%	0.47%
Posterior putamen
Pearson correlation coefficient	−0.453	−0.463	−0.437	−0.414	−0.461	−0.416
P	0.00137^*	0.00105^*	0.00214^*	0.00386^*	0.0011^*	0.00363^*
Rates of decline	0.51%	0.54%	0.50%	0.49%	0.51%	0.49%
Anterior caudate nucleus
Pearson correlation coefficient	−0.508	−0.363	−0.483	−0.428	−0.508	−0.476
P	0.000268^*	0.0121	0.000579^*	0.00267^*	0.000264^*	0.000719^*
Rates of decline	0.62%	Not significant	0.60%	0.53%	0.61%	0.58%
Posterior caudate nucleus
Pearson correlation coefficient	−0.34	−0.227	−0.452	−0.285	−0.411	−0.258
P	0.0196	0.126	0.00141^*	0.0519	0.00407^*	0.0801
Rates of decline	Not significant	Not significant	0.73%	Not significant	0.66%	Not significant
Ventral striatum
Pearson correlation coefficient	−0.415	−0.0261	−0.454	−0.224	−0.471	−0.0694
P	0.00377^*	0.862	0.00134^*	0.130	0.000844^*	0.643
Rates of decline	0.62%	Not significant	0.68%	Not significant	0.67%	Not significant