Ultrafast Cone-Beam Computed Tomography: A Comparative Study of Imaging Protocols during Image-Guided Therapy Procedure

Table 5

Displayed image quality qualitative analysis scores (mean ± standard deviation and range) obtained from the readers using both ultrafast CBCT patient imaging protocols.

Imaging protocol	Tumor classification:
	Hypoenhanced tumor (A)	Heterogeneously enhanced tumor (B)	Homogenously enhanced tumor (C)
Protocol 1	2.9 ± 0.4 (2.6–3.1)	3 ± 0.4 (2.6–3.25)	3.1 ± 0.5 (2.7–3.4)
Protocol 2	4 ± 0.6 (3.7–4.2)	4.3 ± 0.4 (4–4.5)	4.6 ± 0.3 (4.3–4.8)
value	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001