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Table 3 Comparison of the performance of CT with the individual MRI sequences and combined MRI for lung nodule detection

From: Free-breathing 3D Stack of Stars GRE (StarVIBE) sequence for detecting pulmonary nodules in 18F-FDG PET/MRI

 

Detected nodules

Relative difference (%)

95% confidence interval

p value

CT vs. HASTE

65 vs. 11

83.1

0.71 to 0.9

< 0.001

CT vs. VIBE

65 vs. 26

60

0.46 to 0.71

< 0.001

CT vs. StarVIBE

65 vs. 31

52.3

0.39 to 0.64

< 0.001

HASTE vs. VIBE

11 vs. 26

23.1

0.08 to 0.37

0.001

HASTE vs. StarVIBE

11 vs. 31

30.8

0.15 to 0.45

< 0.001

VIBE vs. StarVIBE

26 vs. 31

7.7

− 0.09 to 0.25

0.27

CT vs. MRI (combined)

65 vs. 36

44.6

0.31 to 0.57

< 0.001

  1. The StarVIBE sequence was able to increase the overall lung nodule detection of MRI, but CT still showed a significantly better performance
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