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. 2023 Mar 24;41(8):872–881. doi: 10.1007/s11604-023-01410-5

Table 6.

Subjective evaluation of the half-dose method

Ventricle Corticomedullary boundary Extramedullary space
Scale Reader 1 Reader 2 Reader 1 Reader 2 Reader 1 Reader 2
N (%) 5 24 (85.7%) 24 (85.7%) 1 (3.6%) 20 (71.4%) 14 (50%) 23 (82.1%)
4 4 (4.3%) 4 (4.3%) 24 (85.7) 8 (28.6%) 14 (50%) 5 (17.9%)
3 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 3 (10.7) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
2 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
1 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Cranium 2D Cranium 3D
Scale Reader1 Reader2 Reader1 Reder2
5 28 (100%) 27 (96.4%) 28 (100%) 27 (96.4%)
4 0 (0%) 1 (3.6%) 0 (0%) 1 (3.6%)
3 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
2 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
1 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

5—very well evaluable (as good as FDM), 4—well evaluable (slightly inferior to FDM), 3—evaluable (inferior to FDM), 2—difficult to evaluate, 1—not possible to evaluate

Reader 1: 9 years of radiology experience; Reader 2: 33 years of radiology experience)