Table 6.

Objective image quality parameters

Parameter		Group A	Group B	p-value	Significant (S)/Non-significant (NS)
Image noise		8.45 ± 2.50	8.40 ± 2.06	0.945	NS
Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR)
	Liver	5.19 ± 3.06 (1.8-11.1)	4.88 ± 2.43 (1.8-12)	0.73	NS
	Spleen	6.33 ± 3.49 (2.5-12.3)	5.78 ± 2.63 (2.6-13.2)	0.553	NS
	Portal vein	11.72 ± 6.17 (3.2-24.2)	10.43 ± 4.62 (3.1-24.4)	0.462	NS
Figure of merit CNR
	Liver	4.21 ± 6.57 (0.3-15.9)	5.070 ± 7.00 (0.4-30.3)	0.69	NS
	Spleen	5.28 ± 6.67 (0.5-24.9)	6.76 ± 8.44 (0.6-36.7)	0.543	NS
	Portal vein	18.27 ± 22.94 (1.2-65.3)	22.38 ± 28.16 (2.9-125.6)	0.616	NS

Data are given as mean ±standard deviation and range in parenthesis.