. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 16.

Published in final edited form as: Abdom Radiol (NY). 2019 Jan;44(1):22–30. doi: 10.1007/s00261-018-1705-y

Table 2.

Comparison of perceived image quality, anatomic delineation, and diagnostic confidence

Assessment	Features	Mean score			Kruskal–Wallis test p values	Wilcoxon signed-rank test p values
Assessment	Features	UTE	BH-SPGR	FB-SPGR	Kruskal–Wallis test p values	UTE ≠ BH-SPGR	UTE ≠ FB-SPGR
Image quality	Perceived SNR	3.6	3.4	3.1	0.00001	0.00001	0.00001
	Contrast	3.2	3.6	3.4	0.00098	0.00001	0.03236
	Artifacts	3.4	3.2	2.7	0.00001	0.00064	0.00001
	Blurring	3.2	3.0	2.6	0.00001	0.09894	0.00001
Anatomic delineation	Appendix	3.0	2.9	2.4	0.00001	0.06432	0.00001
	Small bowel	3.1	2.9	2.4	0.00001	0.02926	0.00001
	Colon	3.5	3.3	2.8	0.00001	0.02510	0.00001
	Bladder	3.7	3.6	3.3	0.00010	0.04884	0.00001
Diagnostic confidence		4.0	3.8	3.2	0.00001	0.01314	0.00001

Italics denote statistical significance after a Bonferroni–Holm multiple comparisons correction