Table 1.
Overall image quality and comparison of T2w MRCP and gadoxetic acid – enhanced T1w MRC.
| Reader 1 | Reader 2 | |||
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| T2w MRCP | T1w MRC | T2w MRCP | T1w MRC | |
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| Image quality assessed by: | ||||
| A. Visual contrast | ||||
| 3 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 32 |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| B. Artifacts | ||||
| 3 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 29 |
| 2 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| C. Visualized branch order | ||||
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 |
| 3 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 10 |
| 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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| 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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| Overall preference | T2w 3D MRC = 17 T1w MRC = 11 none = 6 |
T2w 3D MRC = 20 T1w MRC = 14 none = 0 |
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