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. 2018 Jan 24;2018:7569590. doi: 10.1155/2018/7569590

Table 4.

Studies reporting on the inter- and intraoperator variability of the Clarity system (TAUS) or the Clarity Autoscan system (TPUS). The first column details the first author and publication year. indicates that the detailed results were discussed in the review paper [11] as well, while Δ highlights that these specific results were not discussed, but the paper was included in the previous review. The second column specifies the used system, while the third and fourth column provide the number of compared operators and their experience, respectively. In the fifth column the number of examined patients is specified, while in the sixth column the number of matches made by the operators is detailed. The seventh column explains the metric that was used to quantify the intraoperator variability (column eight) and the interoperator variability (column nine).

First author System # operators Experience # pts # matches Metric Intra Inter
AP LR SI AP LR SI
Van der Meer (2013) [17] TAUS 2 (intra)
3 (inter)
- 13 817 SD (mm) 0.7 0.8 1 1.4 1.3 1.8

FiandraΔ (2014) [32] TAUS 2 Expert (>5 years) 10 60 Mean ± SD of operator Δ (mm) - - - −0.1 ± 1.4 −0.4 ± 1.2 0.1 ± 1.3
5 >1 year 10 150 Root mean square error with respect to expert [mm] - - - 2.1 ± 2.1 1.3 ± 1.7 1.7 ± 1.7
4 <1 year 10 120 - - - 3.1 ± 2.7 2.7 ± 2.7 3.2 ± 3.2

Pang (2017) [33] TPUS 7 All operators 10 70 Δ between operator and total group median [mm] in all directions ≤2 in 93.3% of the time ≤2 in 93.8% of the time
5 9–16 months 10 50 ≤2 in 96.7% of the time -
2 4–9 months 10 20 ≤2 in 60% and 80% of the time -