BMC Medical Imaging

Table 3 Reproducibility of ADC Values in repeated MR exams

From: Reproducibility and feasibility of optic nerve diffusion MRI techniques: single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI), readout-segmented EPI, and reduced field-of-view diffusion-weighted imaging

	rs-EPI	rFOV-DWI	ss-EPI
ROI₁
ICCs	0.916	0.850	0.810
BA-LA	− 20 to 22	− 18 to 28.1	− 33.5 to 22.2
ROI₂
ICCs	0.797	0.595	0.442^a
BA-LA	− 31 to 32.2	− 26.5 to 29	− 46.2 to 51.1
ROI₃
ICCs	0.781	0.750	0.379^a
BA-LA	− 40.6 to 18.1	− 19.6 to 25.3	− 41.5 to 41.3

BA-LA (in %), the 95% Bland–Altman limits of agreements; ICCs, intraclass correlation coefficients (two-way random); rs-EPI DWI, readout-segmented echo-planar imaging diffusion-weighted imaging; rFOV, reduced field-of-view; ss-EPI, single-shot echo-planar imaging; ROI, region of interest
^aP > 0.05

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