Table 3.

Quantitative comparisons of image quality between SMS-RESOLVE DWI and RESOLVE DWI

Quantitative parameters	SMS-RESOLVE	RESOLVE	P	ICC
				SMS-RESOLVE	RESOLVE
ADCLesion	0.91 ± 0.37	0.92 ± 0.37	0.298	0.89	0.86
ADCMasseter	1.41 ± 0.17	1.55 ± 0.11	0.122	0.87	0.74
SNR ratio	1.92 ± 0.36	1.77 ± 0.74	0.584	0.75	0.78
CNR ratio	1.28 ± 0.59	1.11 ± 0.58	0.217	0.83	0.88

SMS simultaneous multi-slice, RESOLVE readout segmentation of long variable echo-trains, DWI diffusion-weighted imaging, ADC apparent diffusion coefficient, SNR signal-to-noise ratio, CNR contrast-to-noise ratio, ICC intra-class correlation coefficient.

Unit of ADC is ×10⁻³ mm²/s.

Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation.