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Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jun;33(6):1517–1525. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22556

Table 3.

Qualitative image scores for DW-images at b = 0 sec/mm² acquired with single-shot DW-SE-EPI, DW-SPLICE, targeted-DW-SE-EPI and targeted-DW-SPLICE techniques

Image Score	Single-shot DW-SE-EPI	DW-SPLICE	Targeted-DW-SE-EPI	Targeted-DW-SPLICE
Artifacts	1.56 ± 0.53^†^*^‡	2.89 ± 0.6^†	2.89 ± 0.78^†	3.67 ± 0.5
Sharpness	2.89 ± 0.33^†^‡	2.22 ± 0.33^†	2.89 ± 0.33^†^‡	3.67 ± 0.5

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p < 0.05 for comparisons with qualitative image score for DW-images acquired by targeted-DW-SPLICE

p < 0.05 for comparisons with qualitative image score for DW-images acquired by targeted-DW-SE-EPI

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p < 0.05 for comparisons with qualitative image score for DW-images acquired by DW-SPLICE