Improved dark blood imaging of the heart using radial balanced steady-state free precession

Table 4 Inter-reader agreement

		Image quality		Fat suppression		Blood nulling		RV wall visibility		LV wall visibility		Septum visibility
Weighting	Metric	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE	Radial bSSFP	Cart. FSE
T1 (N = 20)	κ	0.20	0.63^a	0.26^a	0.17	0.67^a	0.48^a	0.29^a	0.56^a	0.31	0.56^a	0.25	0.46^a
T1 (N = 20)	AC1	0.50^a	0.63^a	−0.10	0.12	0.40^a	0.47^a	−0.05	0.36^a	0.20^a	0.36^a	0.10	0.21
T2 (N = 21)	κ	0.66^a	0.65^a	0.07	0.05	0.63^a	0.48^a	0.71^a	0.63^a	0.59^a	0.64^a	0.50^a	0.69^a
T2 (N = 21)	AC1	0.56^a	0.43^a	−0.15	0.35^a	0.52^a	0.28	0.31^a	0.24	0.38^a	0.24	0.42^a	0.26
All weightings (N = 41)	κ	0.56^a	0.65^a	0.15^a	0.12^a	0.71^a	0.49^a	0.59^a	0.61^a	0.55^a	0.63^a	0.41^a	0.61^a
All weightings (N = 41)	AC1	0.56^a	0.54^a	−0.13	0.24^a	0.50^a	0.39^a	0.21^a	0.29^a	0.46^a	0.35^a	0.44^a	0.28^a

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