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. 2018 Mar 14;13(3):e0193746. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193746

Table 3. Inter-vendor agreement and intra-vendor reproducibility at intra- and inter-observer levels for global longitudinal, global circumferential and global radial strain based on one measurement (R1).

TomTec versus QStrain   TomTec     QStrain    
Mean Difference
(SD of the Diff.)
ICC (95% CI) CoV (%) Mean Difference (SD of the Diff.) ICC (95% CI) CoV (%) Mean Difference
(SD of the Diff.)
ICC (95% CI) CoV (%)
Intra-observer LV GLS % 1.06 (2.92) 0.95 (0.88–0.98) 16.49 -0.09 (1.02) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 5.97 0.16 (1.10) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 6.00
GCS % 0.82 (2.91) 0.98 (0.94–0.99) 12.29 -0.55 (0.82) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 3.57 0.09 (1.00) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 4.13
GRS % -12.57 (10.07) 0.63 (0.00–0.88) 39.16 -0.36 (4.42) 0.93 (0.83–0.97) 22.52 -2.68 (8.22) 0.92 (0.80–0.97) 24.64
RV GLS % 3.17 (5.98) 0.80 (0.47–0.92) 31.15 -0.35 (1.64) 0.99 (0.97–1.00) 9.39 0.59 (1.53) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 7.25
Inter-observer LV GLS % 0.59 (2.68) 0.96 (0.91–0.99) 14.80 0.64 (1.35) 0.99 (0.97–1.00) 7.75 -0.08 (1.14) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 6.25
GCS % 0.92 (2.56) 0.98 (0.95–0.99) 10.80 0.00 (1.11) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 4.75 -0.07 (1.01) 1.00 (0.99–1.00) 4.21
GRS % -15.55 (10.66) 0.48 (0.00–0.81) 39.62 0.29 (3.37) 0.95 (0.87–0.98) 17.49 4.85 (8.58) 0.87 (0.62–0.95) 29.00
  RV GLS % 2.92 (7.68) 0.71 (0.29–0.88) 38.57 0.84 (2.46) 0.97 (0.93–0.99) 13.61 0.39 (1.56) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 7.42

SD, standard deviation; Diff., differences; ICC, intra-class correlation coefficient; CoV, coefficient of variation; CI, confidence interval; LV GLS, global left ventricular longitudinal strain; GCS, global left ventricular circumferential strain; GRS, global left ventricular radial strain; RV GLS, global right ventricular longitudinal strain