Research Article

With 3 Types of Respiratory Acquisition: 3.0 T Respiratory Triggered Acquisition Can Obtain Higher Quality DWI Images of the Upper Abdomen

Table 6

The mean absolute difference (bias) and 95% confidence interval of the mean difference (limits of agreement) of ADC of liver parenchyma from the three DWIs.

DWISeries of scansMean biasLimits of agreement

Respiratory-triggered1 vs. 2−0.04±0.11
1 vs. 3−0.03±0.15
2 vs. 30.01±0.17

Breath-holding1 vs. 2−0.01±0.09
1 vs. 3−0.09±0.48
2 vs. 3−0.08±0.47

Free-breathing1 vs. 2−0.02±0.11
1 vs. 3−0.07±0.14
2 vs. 3−0.06±0.18