Table 4.
Subjective image quality scores for reduced dose B-1, reduced dose B-2, and reduced dose B-3
| B-1 | B-2 | B-3 | ||||
| Reader 1 | ||||||
| Lesions | 1 (4/27) | 2 (22/27) | 1 (4/27) | 2 (19/27) | 1 (7/27) | 2 (18/27) |
| 3 (1/27) | 3 (4/27) | 3 (2/27) | ||||
| Liver margins | 1 (14/22) | 2 (8/22) | 1 (12/22) | 2 (10/22) | 1 (16/22) | 2 (6/22) |
| Liver parenchyma | 1 (1/22) | 2 (16/22) | 1 (1/22) | 2 (14/22) | 1 (1/22) | 2 (16/22) |
| 3 (5/22) | 3 (7/22) | 3 (5/22) | ||||
| Adrenals | 1 (2/22) | 2 (14/22) | 1 (2/22) | 2 (13/22) | 1 (3/22) | 2 (15/22) |
| 3 (6/22) | 3 (7/22) | 3 (4/22) | ||||
| Bowels | 3 (7/23) | 2 (15/22) | 3 (7/23) | 2 (15/22) | 3 (6/23) | 2 (16/22) |
| Reader 2 | ||||||
| Lesions | 1 (5/30) | 2 (19/30) | 1 (8/30) | 2 (18/28) | 1 (7/30) | 2 (15/30) |
| 3 (6/30) | 3 (4/30) | 3 (8/30) | ||||
| Liver margins | 1 (6/22) | 2 (14/22) | 1 (8/22) | 2 (13/22) | 1 (6/22) | 2 (14/22) |
| 3 (2/22) | 3 (1/22) | 3 (2/22) | ||||
| Liver parenchyma | 3 (17/22) | 2 (5/22) | 3 (16/22) | 2 (6/22) | 3 (18/22) | 2 (4/22) |
| Adrenals | 1 (3/22) | 2 (10/22) | 1 (4/22) | 2 (11/22) | 1 (2/22) | 2 (9/22) |
| 3 (9/22) | 3 (7/22) | 3 (11/22) | ||||
| 3 (4/22) | 3 (1/22) | 3 (5/22) | ||||
| Bowels | 1 (4/22) | 2 (16/22) | 1 (5/22) | 2 (16/22) | 1 (3/22) | 2 (17/22) |
| 3 (2/22) | 3 (1/22) | 3 (2/22) | ||||
Score (seen by number of lesions or patients/total number of lesions or patients), score of 1 = sufficient, 2 = limited, 3 = unacceptable for clinical diagnostic confidence.