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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Jun 14;52(5):1510–1524. doi: 10.1002/jmri.27240

Table 5: Diagnostic performance of MRA methods versus CE-CTA of the two readers.

Data are percentages; 95% confidence intervals are provided in parentheses.

Variable (%) Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value Negative predictive value Accuracy
MRA methods
Radial QISS-MRA
Central arteries 89.7 (72.7 – 97.8) 98.1 (94.4 – 99.6) 89.7 (73.7 – 96.4) 98.1 (94.5 – 99.3) 96.7 (93.0 – 98.8)
Lobar arteries 94.6 (89.1 – 97.8) 93.0 (88.1 – 96.3) 91.0 (85.5 – 94.6) 95.8 (91.7 – 97.9) 93.7 (90.3 – 96.1)
Peripheral arteries 84.9 (81.5 – 88.0) 92.2 (89.7 – 94.3) 90.6 (87.8 – 92.8) 87.4 (84.9 – 89.6) 88.8 (86.8 – 90.6)
All pulmonary arterial branches 86.0 (83.0 – 88.6) 93.4 (91.5 – 94.9) 89.9 (87.5 – 92.0) 90.6 (88.8 – 92.2) 90.4 (88.8 – 91.8)
Cartesian bSSFP
Central arteries 76.9 (56.4 – 91.0) 98.7 (95.4 – 99.8) 90.9 (71.3 – 97.6) 96.2 (92.6 – 98.1) 95.6 (91.4 – 98.1)
Lobar arteries 82.7 (75.0 – 88.8) 85.0 (78.8 – 89.9) 80.2 (73.7 – 85.3) 87.0 (82.0 – 90.8) 84.0 (79.4 – 88.0)
Peripheral arteries 75.6 (71.3 – 79.5) 83.8 (80.5 – 86.7) 78.4 (74.9 – 81.5) 81.5 (78.9 – 83.9) 80.2 (77.6 – 82.6)
All pulmonary arterial branches 80.6 (77.5 – 83.5) 86.6 (84.2 – 88.7) 82.5 (79.9 – 84.8) 85.1 (83.0 – 86.9) 84.0 (82.1 – 85.7)