Table 2.
Agreement of 18F-fluoride PET uptake measurement between OsiriX and FusionQuant: Mean differences, Bland-Altman 95% limits of agreement and concordance correlation coefficients (CCC) for each analytical method.
| Mean difference |
95% CI of mean difference |
95% Limits of agreement |
p for linear regression a |
CCC | 95% CI of CCC |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aortic valve SUVmean | −0.054 | −0.087 to −0.021 | −0.20 to +0.10 | 0.669 | 0.971 | 0.947-0.994 |
| Aortic valve SUVmax | −0.061 | −0.153 to 0.032 | −0.48 to +0.36 | 0.757 | 0.968 | 0.942-0.995 |
| Aortic valve TBRmean | −0.013 | −0.053 to 0.027 | −0.19 to +0.17 | 0.494 | 0.972 | 0.949-0.995 |
| Aortic valve TBRmax | 0.002 | −0.076 to 0.079 | −0.35 to +0.35 | 0.842 | 0.981 | 0.965-0.997 |
| Blood pool (right atrium) | −0.027 | −0.051 to −0.003 | −0.14 to 0.08 | 0.285 | 0.964 | 0.935-0.993 |
CI, confidence interval
linear regression of mean differences on averages for evaluation of proportional bias