DTI parameter index value by gender.

<p>Footnote: KMO, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy;</p><p>Bartlett’s, Bartlett’s test of sphericity.</p><p>physiological items including: age, gender, height, weight, BMI, BSA, eGFR.</p><p>DTI items including: MD, FA, λ₁, λ₂, λ₃, RD.</p><p>DTI parameter index value by gender.</p

Factor analysis of physiological and DTI indices.

<p>Factor analysis of physiological and DTI indices.</p

Anatomic and DTI-MRI map of native healthy kidneys.

<p>(A) T₁INPHASE fat-suppression background reference map; (B) DTI tractographic map; (C) DTI MD pseudo-color map; (D) DTI FA pseudo-color map.</p

Cortical and medullary DTI parameters by kidney and gender.

<p>(A) Comparison of cortical and medullary FA values by kidney and gender; (B) Comparison of medullary RD values by kidney and gender; (C) Comparison of cortical and medullary λ values by kidney and gender.</p

Variance by principal component and rotational sum.

<p>Variance by principal component and rotational sum.</p

Correlation of renal cortical and medullary DTI parameters and anthropometric indices.

<p>(A) Anthropometric factor 3 versus DTI factor 3; (B) Age versus medullary FA value; (C) eGFR versus medullary FA value; (D) eGFR versus medullary λ₁ value.</p

Extracted factors from tested indexes.

<p>Abbreviation: M, male; F, female; BMI, body mass index; BSA, body surface area; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration.</p><p>Extracted factors from tested indexes.</p

DTI parameters in the cortex and medulla.

<p>DTI parameters in the cortex and medulla.</p

Brain areas whose GMVs are correlated with the DB scores.

<p>Abbreviations: DB, digits backward; GMV, gray matter volume; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; ROI, region of interest; STG, superior temporal gyrus.</p

The brain areas that show positive rsFCs with each ROI (FWE corrected, <i>P</i><0.05).

<p>The representation of each ROI is shown in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0031877#pone-0031877-t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a>. Abbreviations: FWE, family-wise error; ROI, region of interest; rsFC, resting-state functional connectivity.</p