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Table 4 Inter-reader agreement of quantified LGE area and fraction

From: The image quality and diagnostic accuracy of T1-mapping-based synthetic late gadolinium enhancement imaging: comparison with conventional late gadolinium enhancement imaging in real-life clinical situation

 

Inter-reader agreementa

Technique

LGE area (cm2)

LGE fraction (%)

Synthetic MagIR

− 0.1 (− 7.2, 7.0)

− 0.1 (− 6.9, 6.8)

Synthetic PSIR

− 0.3 (− 5.8, 5.3)

0.3 (− 3.9, 4.5)

Conventional MagIR

1.0 (− 3.4, 5.3)

1.3 (− 4.3, 6.9)

Conventional PSIR

− 0.3 (− 6.9, 6.2)

0.4 (− 5.5, 6.3)

  1. LGE late gadolinium enhancement, MagIR magnitude-reconstructed IR, PSIR phase-sensitive IR
  2. aData are biases and were obtained with Bland–Altman analysis. Numbers in parentheses are the 95% limits of agreement