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

Table 6: Interobserver and intraobserver agreement for the clinical evaluation of radial QISS-MRA and Cartesian bSSFP.

Data are given as agreement, and 95% confidence interval values are in parentheses.

Variable Patients
Radial QISS-MRA Cartesian bSSFP
Interobserver agreement

Visualization of anatomical segmentations
Central region 0.88 (0.84 – 0.92) 0.88 (0.85 – 0.92)
Lobar region 0.71 (0.63 – 0.80) 0.79 (0.75 – 0.84)
Peripheral region 0.83 (0.80 – 0.87) 0.80 (0.77 – 0.82)
Diagnostic of acute pulmonary embolism
Central region 0.97 (0.93 – 0.99) 0.97 (0.93 – 0.99)
Lobar region 0.95 (0.92 – 0.98) 0.90 (0.86 – 0.94)
Peripheral region 0.89 (087 – 0.92) 0.81 (0.78 – 0.85)
Intraobserver agreement

Visualization of anatomical segmentations
Central region
Reader 1 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.94 (0.92 – 0.97)
Reader 2 0.97 (0.95 – 0.99) 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00)
Lobar region
Reader 1 0.82 (0.78 – 0.86) 0.89 (0.86 – 0.92)
Reader 2 0.91 (0.88 – 0.93) 0.89 (0.86 – 0.92)
Peripheral region
Reader 1 0.87 (0.85 – 0.89) 0.86 (0.85 – 0.88)
Reader 2 0.86 (0.83 – 0.89) 0.92 (0.91 – 0.94)
Diagnostic of acute pulmonary embolism
Central region
Reader 1 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.99 (0.98 – 1.00)
Reader 2 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.99 (0.98 – 1.00)
Lobar region
Reader 1 0.96 (0.93 – 0.99) 0.91 (0.87 – 0.95)
Reader 2 0.98 (0.96 – 1.00) 0.92 (0.89 – 0.96)
Peripheral region
Reader 1 0.93 (0.91 – 0.95) 0.92 (0.91 – 0.94)
Reader 2 0.97 (0.95 – 0.99) 0.86 (0.83 – 0.90)