Table 6.
Comparison of perceived image quality, anatomic delineation, and diagnostic confidence of the subgroup of the younger patients with age of 8 years and under (22 patients)
| Assessment | Features | Mean scores |
Kruskal–Wallis test p values | Wilcoxon signed-rank test p values |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTE | BH-SPGR | FB-SPGR | UTE ≠ BH-SPGR | UTE ≠ FB-SPGR | |||
| Image quality | Perceived SNR | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 0.00014 | 0.00164 | 0.00001 |
| Contrast | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 0.17911 | 0.12356 | 0.53526 | |
| Artifacts | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 0.0082 | 0.05 | 0.0001 | |
| Blurring | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.00099 | 0.11184 | 0.00001 | |
| Anatomic delineation | Appendix | 2.6 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 0.00055 | 0.002 | 0.00001 |
| Small bowel | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 0.00581 | 0.05 | 0.00001 | |
| Colon | 3.0 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 0.00284 | 0.01078 | 0.00001 | |
| Bladder | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 0.02293 | 0.16758 | 0.00001 | |
| Diagnostic confidence | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 0.0007 | 0.00652 | 0.00008 | |
Italics denote statistical significance after a Bonferroni–Holm multiple comparisons correction