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. 2020 Feb;41(2):231–237. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6375

Table 3:

Qualitative image analysisa

Non-SEMAR SEMAR P Value κ Value
Non-SEMAR SEMAR
The severity of metallic artifacts 1.2 ± 0.4 2.9 ± 0.2 <.01 0.53 (5) 0.65 (1)
Visibility of structures
 Electrode localization 1.5 ± 0.6 3.5 ± 0.5 <.01 0.62 (8) 0.53 (8)
 Basal ganglia 1.2 ± 0.4 3.0 ± 0.4 <.01 0.57 (5) 0.61 (5)
 Thalamus 1.1 ± 0.3 2.8 ± 0.5 <.01 0.63 (2) 0.66 (5)
 Cortico-medullary junction 1.8 ± 0.3 3.4 ± 0.5 <.01 0.51 (7) 0.72 (5)
 Sylvian fissure 2.1 ± 0.7 3.7 ± 0.5 <.01 0.58 (8) 0.58 (6)
 Lateral ventricle 2.0 ± 0.5 3.8 ± 0.4 <.01 0.70 (4) 0.53 (9)
 Third ventricle 1.6 ± 0.5 3.2 ± 0.7 <.01 0.56 (7) 0.58 (6)
Background image quality
 GM-WM contrast 3.2 ± 0.6 3.3 ± 0.6 .11 0.60 (8) 0.68 (7)
 Image noise 3.2 ± 0.4 3.2 ± 0.4 .32 0.61 (4) 0.53 (4)
Overall diagnostic confidence 1.4 ± 0.5 3.1 ± 0.4 <.01 0.52 (8) 0.56 (4)
a

Data are means. Parentheses show the number of cases for which the subjective score before consensus reading was disputed by both readers. Scale for subjective score: 1 = undiagnostic, 2 = suboptimal, 3 = acceptable, 4 = fully diagnostic.