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Table 2 Interobserver Variability of Image Quality of f-FOV and r-FOV Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

From: Gallbladder carcinoma: an initial clinical experience of reduced field-of-view diffusion-weighted MRI

Image parameter

f-FOV

r-FOV

SNR

0.967 (0.946—0.980)

0.938 (0.899—0.962)

CNR

0.776 (0.652—0.859)

0.878 (0.804—0.925)

Sharpness

0.769 (0.606—0.908)

0.833 (0.689—0.965)

Distortion

0.873 (0.751—0.969)

0.799 (0.652—0.920)

Artifacts

0.837 (0.686—0.966)

0.855 (0.691—0.967)

Lesion conspicuity

0.826 (0.682—0.942)

0.846 (0.711—0.968)

  1. Data in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals, SNR = signal-to-noise ratio, CNR = contrast-to-noise ratio
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