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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Jul 6;219(1):151–157. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.06.049

Table 2.

Intra- and inter- observer reproducibility of PCAT measurement

PCAT Volumes Intra-observer
Inter-observer
Mean Actual Difference(cm3) Percent Difference ICC Mean Actual Difference(cm3) Percent Difference ICC
Proximal 40 mm distance
 All coronaries 0.27 ± 0.91 0.61% 0.997 1.38 ± 3.32 3.00% 0.951
 LAD 0.0 ± 0.25 0.14% 0.995 0.32 ± 1.02 1.15% 0.876
 LCx 0.16 ± 0.55 1.47% 0.987 0.69 ± 2.20 5.22% 0.791
 RCA 0.16 ±0.52 0.21% 0.997 0.37 ± 1.21 2.25% 0.982

Entire Vessel length
 All coronaries 4.53 ± 15.27 7.71% 0.804 28.39 ± 17.29† 29.73% 0.405
 LAD 1.06 ± 7.38 5.64% 0.667 6.45 ± 5.60† 20.63% 0.511
 LCx 4.03 ± 9.93 36.11% 0.209* 8.21 ± 9.10 35.83% 0.181*
 RCA 0.56 ± 10.52 1.94% 0.708 13.74 ± 10.58† 30.56% 0.395

Proximal anatomical segments
 All coronaries 3.47 ± 3.33† 19.89% 0.891 5.32 ± 4.05† 32.22% 0.802
 LAD 0.53 ± 0.87 12.23% 0.937 0.13 ± 1.47 1.77% 0.901
 LCx 0.11 ± 2.09 3.61% 0.365* 0.64 ± 1.64 3.58% 0.381*
 RCA 1.02 ± 2.66 11.27% 0.887 3.88 ± 2.62† 30.04% 0.688

Proximal two anatomical segments
 All coronaries 23.09 ± 20.0† 47.90% 0.378 19.63 ± 12.52† 39.31% 0.670
 LAD 0.73 ± 0.77† 9.80% 0.956 0.91 ± 3.87 3.55% 0.603
 LCx 4.03 ± 10.0 36.11% 0.209* 8.69 ± 9.10† 40.36% 0.175*
 RCA 0.85 ± 7.04 4.25% 0.740 6.53 ± 4.17† 21.70% 0.596

Intra-observer and inter-observer reproducibility of each measure were reported as ICC with all p<0.05, except for *p=nonsignificant. All p-values for the mean actual difference were nonsignificant except for †p≤0.01.

Proximal anatomical segments includes only segments 1, 5, 6, and 11. Proximal two anatomical segments include only segments 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 13. LAD denotes left anterior descending artery; LCx, left circumflex artery; RCA, right coronary artery; ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.