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Published in final edited form as: Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jul 12;30(9):1357–1366. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.04.018

Table 5.

QMs found in our sample of radiology reports

Metric	Number of reports containing metric
Size of solid mass/nodule/lymph node/abnormal enhancement	210
Size of cyst	21
Size of fluid collection/abscess/hematoma	19
Size of non-neoplastic extremity musculoskeletal pathology (intraarticular body, fracture impaction, thickness or length of tendon/cartilage tear)	17
Size of non-neoplastic spine pathology (disc extrusion, central canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, percent loss of height of compression fracture)	13
Size or percent narrowing of vessel	12
Size of nasal bone spur/nasal septal deviation	12
Distance of brain herniation/midline shift	8
Size of renal calculus	6
Size of solid organ (e.g., spleen, prostate)	6
Diameter of hollow viscus (e.g., appendix, small bowel)	5
Other (including AQMs)	19

Note: Number of reports total greater than 333 due to some reports containing more than one type of QM