Research Article

Whole Body MRI at 3T with Quantitative Diffusion Weighted Imaging and Contrast-Enhanced Sequences for the Characterization of Peripheral Lesions in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and Schwannomatosis

Table 2

Criteria for assessing the diagnostic quality of WB-MRI.

Diagnostic quality ratingCriteria

(1)Nondiagnostic, with artifacts involving greater than 75% of the images
(2)Limited, with artifacts involving 25%–75% of the images
(3)Diagnostic, but with artifacts involving less than 25% of the images
(4)Diagnostic, with no appreciable artifacts