Table 2.

Inter-observer agreement of image quality parameter scores and quantitative analysis between two readers

	Cartesian LAVA with navigator echoes	LAVA Star without navigator echoes	LAVA Star with navigator echoes
Overall image quality	0.754 (0.621–0.888)	0.770 (0.634–0.907)	0.759 (0.608–0.909)
Liver edge sharpness	0.660 (0.480–0.840)	0.667 (0.522–0.811)	0.702 (0.480–0.923)
Hepatic vein clarity	0.692 (0.556–0.827)	0.713 (0.585–0.842)	0.745 (0.577–0.913)
Streak artifact	-	0.742 (0.610–0.873)	0.737 (0.586–0.888)
Respiratory motion/pulsation artifact	0.735 (0.597–0.872)	0.860 (0.670–1.000)	0.873 (0.701–1.000)
Signal intensity ratio of liver-to-spleen	0.875 (0.776–0.932)	0.812 (0.671–0.896)	0.805 (0.659–0.892)
Signal intensity ratio of liver-to-lesion	0.756 (0.551–0.875)	0.699 (0.460–0.844)	0.734 (0.515–0.863)
Signal intensity ratio of liver-to-PV	0.643 (0.485–0.760)	0.636 (0.476–0.755)	0.630 (0.469–0.751)

Data are presented as medians and ranges (kappa coefficients for categorical variables and intraclass correlation coefficients for continuous variables). LAVA, liver acquisition with volume acceleration; PV, portal vein.