Table 3:

Qualitative evaluations and κ values for overall image quality, overall artifacts, and anatomic conspicuities of GRASP-VIBE and T1-TSE

	GRASP-VIBE			T1-TSE			P Value^{^b}
	Scores (mean)	κ	P Value^{^a}	Scores (mean)	κ	P Value^{^a}	P Value^{^b}
Overall image quality
Rater A	4.74 (SD, 0.49)	0.29	.003	3.81 (SD, 0.68)	0.594	<.001
Rater B	4.62 (SD, 0.53)			3.51 (SD, 0.91)
Average of two raters	4.68 (SD, 0.41)			3.66 (SD, 0.73)			<.001
Overall artifacts		0.21	.041		0.542	<.001
Rater A	4.26 (SD, 0.68)			3.60 (SD, 0.60)
Rater B	4.68 (SD, 0.51)			3.55 (SD, 0.97)
Average of two raters	4.47 (SD, 0.48)			3.58 (SD, 0.71)			<.001
Oropharyngeal mucosal conspicuity		0.80	<.001		0.5	<.001
Rater A	4.87 (SD, 0.39)			4.15 (SD, 0.74)
Rater B	4.83 (SD, 0.47)			4.04 (SD, 1.06)
Average of two raters	4.85 (SD, 0.41)			4.11 (SD, 0.79)			<.001
Hypopharyngeal mucosal conspicuity		0.30	.016		0.422	.002
Rater A	4.89 (SD, 0.32)			3.58 (SD, 0.84)
Rater B	4.79 (SD, 0.49)			3.57 (SD, 1.05)
Average of two raters	4.84 (SD, 0.34)			3.58 (SD, 0.81)			<.001
Cervical lymph node conspicuity		0.18	.072		0.34	.001
Rater A	4.64 (SD, 0.48)			4.34 (SD, 0.65)
Rater B	4.94 (SD, 0.30)			3.81 (SD, 0.83)
Average of two raters	4.79 (SD, 0.32)			4.08 (SD, 0.64)			<.001

↵a P value for κ.
↵b P values for paired Wilcoxon rank sum tests comparing the scores of the 2 sequences.