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Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2015 Dec;50(6):367–375. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000135

Table 3.

Mean image quality scores of the post-contrast spiral and Cartesian T₁-weighted images from five normal subjects.

	Motion artifacts	Image blurring	Liver edge sharpness	Clarity of vessels	Overall quality
BH-VIBE	4.8 ± 0.3	3.9 ± 0.2	4.1 ± 0.7	4.1 ± 1.0	4.2 ± 0.4
FB-SPIRAL	4.4 ± 0.4	3.0 ± 0.4^*	3.8 ± 0.6	3.9 ± 0.5	3.5 ± 0.5
FB-VIBE	1.4 ± 0.5^*†	1.4 ± 0.5^*†	1.4 ± 0.6^*†	1.5 ± 0.7^*†	1.4 ± 0.5^*†

Note. --- Data are means ± standard deviations.

Tukey-adjusted P < 0.05 as compared with BH-VIBE

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Tukey-adjusted P < 0.05 as compared with FB-SPIRAL