Statistical Evaluations of the Reproducibility and Reliability of 3-Tesla High Resolution Magnetization Transfer Brain Images: A Pilot Study on Healthy Subjects

Table 6

Coefficient of Variation (CV) of the mean Region of Interest values for each observer.

Region of Interest	Observer 1		Observer 2
	Mean ± SD (𝑁=36)	CV (%)	Mean ± SD (𝑁=36)	CV (%)
Genu	76.9 ± 1.0	1.3	77.1 ± 0.9	1.2
Splenium	73.1 ± 1.4	1.9	72.6 ± 1.5	2.1
Left Hippocampus	51.3 ± 2.4	4.7	51.6 ± 2.7	5.2
Left Caudate	59.7 ± 1.9	3.2	59.3 ± 2.5	4.2
Left Putamen	61.9 ± 2.2	3.6	62.1 ± 1.9	3.1
Left Thalamus	59.9 ± 1.5	2.5	63.3 ± 1.7	2.7
Left Cerebral White Matter	73.3 ± 1.3	1.8	73.1 ± 1.2	1.6
Right Hippocampus	52.5 ± 3.7	7.0	51.5 ± 2.7	5.2
Right Caudate	61.2 ± 1.9	3.1	61.5 ± 1.4	2.3
Right Putamen	62.7 ± 1.5	2.4	62.8 ± 1.5	2.4
Right Thalamus	59.7 ± 1.7	2.8	62.5 ± 2.5	4.0
Right Cerebral White Matter	73.2 ± 1.2	1.6	72.8 ± 1.4	1.9

Note. SD: standard deviation.