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. 2014 Nov 2;2014:879497. doi: 10.1155/2014/879497

Table 1.

Striatal, caudate, and putamen BPND from manual SPECT, CT-guided, and MRI-guided ROIs methods; the intra- and interobserver concordance correlation coefficients, Bland-Altman biases, and limits of agreement of manual SPECT and CT-guided ROI methods.

Striatal BPND Caudate BPND Putamen BPND
Manual SPECT ROI
 Intraobserver (observer A)
  First analysis 0.46 ± 0.24 0.55 ± 0.26 0.42 ± 0.24
  Second analysis 0.48 ± 0.26 0.58 ± 0.29 0.38 ± 0.26
  CCC 0.96 0.96 0.93
  95% CI of CCC 0.93–0.98 0.94–0.98 0.89–0.96
  Bias (mean difference) −0.03 −0.03 0.03
  Limits of agreement −0.16, 0.10 −0.16, 0.11 −0.13, 0.20
 Interobserver*
  Observer B analysis 0.39 ± 0.23 0.48 ± 0.22 0.36 ± 0.24
  CCC 0.89 0.89 0.88
  95% CI of CCC 0.82–0.93 0.83–0.93 0.80–0.93
  Bias (mean difference) 0.07 0.07 0.05
  Limits of agreement −0.11, 0.25 −0.11, 0.25 −0.16, 0.27
CT-guided ROI
 Intraobserver (observer A)
  First analysis 0.49 ± 0.25 0.54 ± 0.25 0.46 ± 0.27
  Second analysis 0.48 ± 0.25 0.52 ± 0.26 0.46 ± 0.27
  CCC 0.98 0.97 0.97
  95% CI of CCC 0.97–0.99 0.94–0.98 0.95–0.98
  Bias (mean difference) 0.01 0.02 0.01
  Limits of agreement −0.08, 0.11 −0.11, 0.14 −0.12, 0.13
 Interobserver*
  Observer B analysis 0.48 ± 0.26 0.56 ± 0.27 0.45 ± 0.28
  CCC 0.97 0.95 0.96
  95% CI of CCC 0.95–0.98 0.92–0.97 0.94–0.98
  Bias (mean difference) 0.01 −0.02 0.02
  Limits of agreement −0.12, 0.13 −0.18, 0.13 −0.13, 0.16
MRI-guided ROI 0.46 ± 0.25 0.53 ± 0.26 0.43 ± 0.25

BPND: nondisplaceable binding potential; SPECT: single photon emission computed tomography; ROI: region of interest; CCC: concordance correlation coefficient; CI: confidence interval; CT: computed tomography

*Interobserver analysis was compared with observer A's first analysis.