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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2013 Jan;48(1):10.1097/RLI.0b013e318271869c. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318271869c

TABLE 2.

Image Quality Parameter Scores for Arterial Phase Acquisitions Averaged Over All Participants and Both Readers (Part A) and P values for Comparison of Image Quality Parameters Between the 3 Acquisition Schemes (Part B)

Part A*
Sequence BH GRASP IARASP
QE 4.9 (0.3) 4.4 (0.5) 3.3 (0.6)
IQ 4.8 (0.4) 3.9 (0.5) 2.9 (0.5)
HES 4.9 (0.3) 3.9 (0.8) 3.5 (0.7)
HVC 4.8 (0.5) 3.5 (0.5) 2.8 (0.7)
Streak artifact 5.0 (0.0) 3.6 (0.6) 2.7 (0.7)
Part B
QEHES IQHVC GRASP IARASP
BH-VIBE 0.06 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
<0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
GRASP <0.0001 <0.0001
0.47 <0.0001
IARASP
*

All values are expressed as mean (SD) where a score of 1 is unacceptable and a score of 5 is excellent.

Key in the upper left-hand corner indicates P values for each image quality parameter.