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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Radiol. 2018 Dec;53(12):742–747. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000499

Table 2 –

Summary of individual structure image quality assessment by 3 individual radiologists using an ordinal scale (mean ± SD, N = 76 per sequence).

Structure Rater SPACE CS SPACE P-valuea 95% Limitb
AICA 1 4.9 ± 0.2 4.5 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.251
2 4.1 ± 0.4 4.0 ± 0.2 0.005 0.066
3 3.9 ± 0.3 3.7 ± 0.5 0.018 0.059
CPA 1 4.9 ± 0.3 4.4 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.349
2 4.2 ± 0.4 4.0 ± 0.3 < 0.001 0.148
3 3.9 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.4 0.675 −0.152
CNV 1 4.8 ± 0.4 4.2 ± 0.4 < 0.001 0.503
2 4.2 ± 0.4 3.8 ± 0.4 < 0.001 0.213
3 3.9 ± 0.2 3.5 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.264
Cochlea 1 4.9 ± 0.3 4.4 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.382
2 4.2 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.2 < 0.001 0.158
3 3.9 ± 0.2 3.9 ± 0.3 0.485 −0.055
IAC 1 4.2 ± 0.6 4.1 ± 0.6 0.394 −0.084
2 3.8 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.4 0.732 −0.164
3 3.6 ± 0.5 3.6 ± 0.6 1.000 −0.162
SCC 1 4.8 ± 0.6 4.4 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.215
2 4.1 ± 0.4 4.0 ± 0.2 0.004 0.067
3 3.8 ± 0.4 3.9 ± 0.3 0.066 −0.243
Vestibule 1 4.9 ± 0.2 4.4 ± 0.5 < 0.001 0.436
2 4.2 ± 0.4 4.0 ± 0.3 0.030 0.031
3 4.0 ± 0.2 4.0 ± 0.1 0.789 −0.060
a

Paired sample Wilcoxon signed rank test not corrected for multiple comparisons.

b

The 95% confidence interval for the difference between individual rating of CS SPACE and SPACE (where > 0 implies SPACE would be rated better).