Key points:
- The Kappa values between the two readers revealed
substantial-to-perfect agreement.
- RS-EPI provided significantly less distortion compared to SS-EPI,
however the structure identification scores were not significantly
different from SS-EPI.
- The PTAs exhibited relatively high signal intensity on DW-MRI with
either SS-EPI or RS-EPI.
- On SS-EPI, the PTAs had significantly higher ADC values compared to
the cervical lymph nodes.
- On RS-EPI, the PTAs had significantly higher ADC values compared to
the thyroid glands and cervical lymph nodes.