Table 1 Quantitative Analysis of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), wash-in, and wash-out of HCC lesions in ECA-enhanced MRI and HSCA-enhanced.

From: MR imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma: prospective intraindividual head-to-head comparison of the contrast agents gadoxetic acid and gadoteric acid

 

Extracellular contrast agent (ECA)

Hepatocyte-specific contrast agent (HSCA)

P value

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

SNR

298.7

183.3–482.9

264.1

220.3–380.4

0.393

CNR

72.7

50.8–165

49.4

18.1–154.4

0.005

Wash-in

0.9

0.6–1.5

0.4

0.1–0.7

 < 0.001

Wash-out

19.8

7.3–35.6

9.3

−6.5 to 21

0.006

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