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Table 3 R2* iron level and fat fraction between conventional MRI and IDEAL

From: IDEAL-IQ in an oncologic population: meeting the challenge of concomitant liver fat and liver iron

 

Conventional MRI

IDEAL

p Value

All patients

 Fat fraction, reader 1

1.3 (−205.5, 35)

11.4 (1, 93.8)

< 0.001

 Fat fraction, reader 2

1.3 (−148.5, 36.6)

11.1 (1.2, 99.7)

< 0.001

Patients with above normal R2* iron level (n = 37)

 Fat fraction, reader 1

1.8 (− 121.7, 32)

12.3 (1, 93.8)

< 0.001

 Fat fraction, reader 2

0.6 (−148.5, 32.7)

11.9 (1.2, 99.7)

< 0.001

Patients with low/normal R2* iron level (n = 13).

 Fat fraction, reader 1

1 (−205.5, 35)

4.5 (1.9, 52.3)

0.068

 Fat fraction, reader 2

3.2 (− 115.6, 36.6)

10.3 (2.2, 60)

0.048