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Table 3 Comparison of Image Qualities Between 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 P value
SNR 40.75 ± 10.30 22.34 ± 5.90 <0.001
CNR 5.24 ± 1.29 10.23 ± 2.92 <0.001
Sharpness 2.64 ± 0.59 3.43 ± 0.47 <0.001
Distortion 2.59 ± 0.54 3.35 ± 0.61 <0.001
Artifacts 2.75 ± 0.54 3.66 ± 0.46 <0.001
Lesion conspicuity 2.48 ± 0.62 3.39 ± 0.55 <0.001
Total subjective IQ 10.41 ± 1.11 13.84 ± 1.07 <0.001
  1. Data are means±standard deviations (averages between two readers)