Table 4.
Subgroup analysis comparing the patients with FB-SPGR performed before UTE (69 patients) to those with FB-SPGR performed after UTE (15 patients)
| Assessment | Features | FB-SPGR mean scores |
p values | UTE mean scores |
p values |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before UTE | After UTE | Before FB-SPGR | After FB-SPGR | ||||
| Image quality | Perceived SNR | 3.4 | 3.1 | 0.0109 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 0.6487 |
| Contrast | 3.8 | 3.3 | 0.0012 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 0.0666 | |
| Artifacts | 3.1 | 2.6 | 0.0022 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 0.0669 | |
| Blurring | 2.7 | 2.6 | 0.3755 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 0.5761 | |
| Anatomic delineation | Appendix | 2.9 | 2.4 | 0.0292 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 0.5277 |
| Small bowel | 2.8 | 2.3 | 0.0156 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 0.1935 | |
| Colon | 3.4 | 2.7 | 0.0003 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 0.7751 | |
| Bladder | 3.8 | 3.2 | 0.0010 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 0.3867 | |
| Diagnostic confidence | 3.7 | 3.1 | 0.0288 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 0.4289 | |
Italics denote statistical significance after a Bonferroni–Holm multiple comparisons correction