Table 1.
Presentation plane | Recon algorithm | Image noise | Image artifacts | Diagnostic confidence | Vascular detectability | Image impression | |||||
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AVG | STDV | AVG | STDV | AVG | STDV | AVG | STDV | AVG | STDV | ||
Axial | FBP | 3.61 | 0.49 | 3.05 | 0.81 | 3.18 | 0.76 | 2.82 | 0.99 | 1.66 | 1.12 |
IMBR | 1.36 | 0.61 | 1.64 | 0.81 | 2.14 | 0.88 | 1.73 | 0.87 | 3.50 | 0.73 | |
1.39 | 0.58 | 1.68 | 0.83 | 1.68 | 0.67 | 1.50 | 0.73 | 2.82 | 0.84 | ||
Coronal | FBP | 3.27 | 0.66 | 2.64 | 0.87 | 2.77 | 0.77 | 2.39 | 0.84 | 1.43 | 0.79 |
IMBR | 1.18 | 0.45 | 1.34 | 0.53 | 1.45 | 0.59 | 1.36 | 0.61 | 2.52 | 0.82 | |
1.32 | 0.56 | 1.41 | 0.66 | 1.43 | 0.66 | 1.32 | 0.67 | 1.98 | 0.82 |