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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2014 May 16;41(5):1365–1373. doi: 10.1002/jmri.24661

Table 2.

Comparison of Subjective Parameters Between DCE Sequences

Reader 1 Reader 2

Feature Standard GRASP Pa Standard GRASP Pa
Clarity of capsule 4.0±0.9 4.7±0.6 0.007 3.9±0.7 4.7±0.5 <0.001
Clarity of PZ/TZ boundary 3.1±0.8 4.6±0.7 <0.001 3.6±0.7 4.5±0.7 <0.001
Clarity of urethra 2.1±0.8 3.8±1.0 <0.001 1.6±0.8 3.3±0.6 <0.001
Clarity of peri-prostatic vessels 2.4±1.1 4.2±1.0 <0.001 1.6±0.5 4.2±0.9 <0.001
Image sharpness 3.1±0.4 4.8±0.4 <0.001 3.3±0.6 4.8±0.4 <0.001
Overall image quality 3.1±0.4 4.7±0.5 <0.001 3.3±0.6 4.6±0.5 <0.001
Lesion conspicuity 3.2±1.2 4.5±0.8 <0.001 3.2±1.2 3.9±1.1 0.020
Absence of streak artifact 4.860.4 4.760.5

All features reported on a 1–5 scale.

a

Listed in bold when statistically significant at P<0.05.