Fig. 5

Mean of visual assessment (overall image quality, contrast, sharpness, noise level, liver homogeneity, tumor detectability and mean of all rated aspects) for Q.Clear reconstructions with different β values and a 1.5 min/bp, b 1.0 min/bp and c 0.5 min/bp and Hadassah and GE OSEM recontructions (1.5 min/bp) following a 4-point scale (1, very poor/nondiagnostic; 2, poor; 3, good and 4, very good). The first analysis (i) included 30 patients against 8 patients for the addiotnal one (ii)