Table 3.

Kappa statistic for interobserver agreement between two different sequences for qualitative variables (SPACE: sampling perfection with application-optimized contrast with different flip-angle evolutions, CISS: constructive interference in the steady-state, CN: cranial nerve).

Qualitative variables	3D-SPACE	3D-CISS
Overall image quality	0.811 (0.701–0.921) *	0.851 (0.754–0.949) *
Visibility of the relationship between the schwannoma and CN	0.818 (0.715–0.923) *	0.816 (0.709–0.923) *
Signal differentiation between lesion and cistern	0.842 (0.722–0.962) *	0.809 (0.707–0.911) *
Signal differentiation between the lesion and adjacent brain parenchyma	0.814 (0.713–0.915)	0.825 (0.715–0.935) *
Artifacts	0. 822 (0.699–0.945) *	0.805 (0.702–0.908) *