Feasibility study of using simultaneous multi-slice RESOLVE diffusion weighted imaging to assess parotid gland tumors: comparison with conventional RESOLVE diffusion weighted imaging

Table 3 Quantitative comparisons of image quality between SMS-RESOLVE DWI and RESOLVE DWI

Quantitative parameters	SMS-RESOLVE	RESOLVE	P	ICC
Quantitative parameters	SMS-RESOLVE	RESOLVE	P	SMS-RESOLVE	RESOLVE
ADC_Lesion	0.91 ± 0.37	0.92 ± 0.37	0.298	0.89	0.86
ADC_Masseter	1.41 ± 0.17	1.55 ± 0.11	0.122	0.87	0.74
SNR ratio	1.92 ± 0.36	1.77 ± 0.74	0.584	0.75	0.78
CNR ratio	1.28 ± 0.59	1.11 ± 0.58	0.217	0.83	0.88

SMS simultaneous multi-slice, RESOLVE readout segmentation of long variable echo-trains, DWI diffusion-weighted imaging, ADC apparent diffusion coefficient, SNR signal-to-noise ratio, CNR contrast-to-noise ratio, ICC intra-class correlation coefficient.
Unit of ADC is ×10⁻³ mm²/s.
Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation.

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