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. 2023 Jul 21;23:69. doi: 10.1186/s40644-023-00592-5

Table 3.

Quantitative analyses of image noise and vascular and HCC Lesion Contrast-to-Noise Ratios (CNRs)

QIR level 0 # 1 2 3 4
Late arterial
Noise (HU) 29 (27–31) 22 (20–24) 19 (17–21) 16 (14–18)
27 (25–30) 24 (22–26) 21 (19–23) 18 (17–20) 15 (14–17)
31 (29–32) 24 (23–25) 20 (20–22) 17 (16–19) 14 (13–16)
CNRvascular 11 (6–18) 14 (8–23) 17 (10–26) 19 (11–32)
12 (6–20) 14 (7–23) 17 (9–26) 19 (12–29) 24 (13–38)
9 (6–16) 13 (8–20) 15 (9–23) 15 (10–26) 22 (12–33)
CNRHCC 2.8 (1.6–3.8) 3.4 (2.1–4.5) 4.1 (2.6–5.1) 4.5 (3.0–6.2)
3.0 (1.8–4.0) 3.3 (2.0–4.5) 3.6 (2.3–4.9) 4.4 (2.7–5.5) 5.1 (3.2–6.8)
2.1 (1.3–3.2) 2.7 (1.8–4.0) 3.0 (2.0–4.6) 3.6 (2.8–5.5) 4.3 (2.8–6.5)
Portal venous
Noise (HU) 29 (27–31) 22 (21–24) 19 (18–21) 16 (15–18)
28 (26–30) 25 (23–27) 22 (20–24) 19 (17–20) 16 (14–18)
29 (27–32) 23 (21–25) 20 (18–22) 16 (15–19) 14 (13–16)
CNRvascular 7 (5–8) 8 (6–10) 10 (7–12) 11 (8–14)
7 (5–9) 8 (6–10) 9 (7–11) 11 (8–13) 13 (10–16)
6 (4–7) 7 (6–9) 8 (7–11) 9 (8–12) 11 (9–15)
CNRHCC 1.4 (0.7–2.9) 1.6 (0.8–3.6) 1.9 (1.0–4.2) 2.2 (1.0–4.9)
1.6 (0.9–2.9) 1.8 (0.9–3.2) 2.1 (1.1–3.6) 2.5 (1.3–4.2) 2.9 (1.5–5.0)
0.9 (0.5–2.6) 1.1 (0.6–3.3) 1.3 (0–7–3.8) 1.5 (0.8–4.4) 1.8 (1.0–5.1)
Delayed
Noise (HU) 28 (27–31) 22 (21–24) 19 (18–21) 16 (15–17)
29 (26–30) 25 (23–27) 22 (20–24) 19 (18–20) 16 (14–17)
29 (27–33) 23 (21–26) 20 (18–22) 16 (16–19) 13 (13–16)
CNRvascular 2.2 (1.7–3.0) 2.7 (2.1–3.8) 3.2 (2.3–4.4) 3.6 (2.8–5.2)
2.3 (1.8–3.0) 2.6 (2.0–3.3) 2.9 (2.3–3.8) 3.4 (2.5–4.4) 4.1 (3.0–5.2)
2.1 (1.5–3.0) 2.7 (1.8–3.9) 3.1 (2.1–4.2) 3.6 (2.5–5.0) 4.2 (3.0–6.0)
CNRHCC 0.7 (0.3–1.3) 0.9 (0.4–1.6) 1.0 (0.4–1.8) 1.2 (0.5–2.1)
1.0 (0.4–1.4) 1.1 (0.4–1.6) 1.2 (0.5–1.8) 1.3 (0.6–2.1) 1.6 (0.6–2.4)
0.5 (0.2–1.2) 0.6 (0.2–1.4) 0.7 (0.3–1.6) 0.8 (0.3–1.8) 0.9 (0.4–2.1)

Values are medians with interquartile ranges in parentheses. For each, in the top line, the results for the total study population are reported. The middle and bottom lines depict the results for the populations scanned before and after the service pack installation