Table 2.

Radiologists' evaluation of image quality

Criterion	Scalea			Average rating
	1		5	1.5 T	3.0 T
Total image quality scoreb	Low	High		23.4	27.7
Margin sharpness	Low	High		4	4.8
Internal lesion sharpness	Low	High		4	4.9
Lesion conspicuity	Low	High		4.1	5
Fat suppression quality	Poor	Very good		3.9	4.6
Artefact/noise level	High noise	Low noise		3.7	4.2
Lymph node conspicuity	Low	High		3.7	4.2

^aTotal quality score scale ranged from 6 to 30.

^bp = 0.005.