Table 2:
CS-SENSE and conventional MRI sequence qualitative evaluation
| Metric | SAG FLAIR (n = 70 Reads) |
SPGR (n = 68 Reads) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acquisitiona |
Difference |
Acquisitiona |
Difference |
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| CS-SENSE | Conventional | Mean | (95% CI) | P Value | CS-SENSE | Conventional | Mean | (95% CI) | P Value | |
| Optimal image quality | 19 (27.1) | 19 (27.1) | 0.0% | (−510.0–10.0) | >.99 | 34 (50.0) | 25 (36.8) | 13.2% | (−5.7–31.8) | .15 |
| Optimal SNR | 6 (8.6) | 5 (7.1) | 1.4% | (−55.7–8.6) | .67 | 27 (39.7) | 24 (35.3) | 4.4% | (−59.7–18.2) | .55 |
| No or trace artifacts | 52 (74.3) | 60 (85.7) | −511.4% | (−524.3–0.0) | .068 | 46 (67.6) | 37 (54.4) | 13.2% | (−53.0–28.6) | .11 |
| Sharp gray-white matter boundaries | 36 (51.4) | 39 (55.7) | −54.3% | (−512.9–4.3) | .36 | 27 (39.7) | 26 (38.2) | 2.2% | (−58.1–12.2) | .67 |
| Sharp lesion boundaries | 57 (86.4) | 55 (83.3) | 2.3% | (−57.1–11.7) | .65 | 52 (83.9) | 52 (83.9) | 0.8% | (−58.6–10.0) | .84 |
Note:—SAG indicates sagittal.
a
Values are No. (%) where higher percentages indicate a higher prevalence of good image quality.