Table 3:

Effect of fat saturation on the sensitivity of readers in detecting changes of optic neuritis on FLAIR and CE images before and after postprocessing

Sequence Type	Reader 1		Reader 2
	Fat Saturation+	Fat Saturation–	Fat Saturation+	Fat Saturation–
FL before processing	13/19 (68.4%)	4/11 (36.6%)	12/19 (63.1%)	4/11 (36.4%)
FL after processing	12/19 (63.2%)	5/11 (45.5%)	11/19 (57.9%)	5/11 (45.5%)
CCE before processing	10/17 (58.8%)	1/6 (16.7%)	11/17 (64.7%)	2/6 (33.3%)
CCE after processing	12/17 (70.6%)	1/6 (16.7%)	12/17 (70.6%)	1/6 (16.7%)
ACE before processing	1/6 (16.7%)	5/24 (20.8%)	2/6 (33.3%)	2/24 (8.3%)
ACE after processing	2/6 (33.3%)	7/24 (29.2%)	2/6 (33.3%)	7/24 (29.2%)

Note:—FL indicates FLAIR; CCE, coronal CE-T1WI; ACE, axial CE-T1WI.