Table 4.
Image quality | Fat suppression | Blood nulling | RV wall visibility | LV wall visibility | Septum visibility | ||||||||
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Weighting | Metric | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE | Radial bSSFP | Cart. FSE |
T1 (N = 20) | κ | 0.20 | 0.63a | 0.26a | 0.17 | 0.67a | 0.48a | 0.29a | 0.56a | 0.31 | 0.56a | 0.25 | 0.46a |
AC1 | 0.50a | 0.63a | −0.10 | 0.12 | 0.40a | 0.47a | −0.05 | 0.36a | 0.20a | 0.36a | 0.10 | 0.21 | |
T2 (N = 21) | κ | 0.66a | 0.65a | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.63a | 0.48a | 0.71a | 0.63a | 0.59a | 0.64a | 0.50a | 0.69a |
AC1 | 0.56a | 0.43a | −0.15 | 0.35a | 0.52a | 0.28 | 0.31a | 0.24 | 0.38a | 0.24 | 0.42a | 0.26 | |
All weightings (N = 41) | κ | 0.56a | 0.65a | 0.15a | 0.12a | 0.71a | 0.49a | 0.59a | 0.61a | 0.55a | 0.63a | 0.41a | 0.61a |
AC1 | 0.56a | 0.54a | −0.13 | 0.24a | 0.50a | 0.39a | 0.21a | 0.29a | 0.46a | 0.35a | 0.44a | 0.28a |
N denotes the number of data points. Cart. Cartesian
aDenotes statistically significant agreement (P < 0.05)