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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 23, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(12):1394-1395; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl047
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The demystification of magnetic resonance imaging?

Rainer Hoffmann*

Medical Clinic I, University Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse, 52074 Aachen, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 241 8088468; fax: +49 241 8082303. E-mail address: rhoffmann@ukaachen.de

This editorial refers to ‘Determination of interobserver variability for identifying inducible left ventricular wall motion abnormalities during dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging’{dagger} by I. Paetsch, on page 1459

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The interobserver variability in test interpretation is a key parameter to evaluate the diagnostic reliability of a diagnostic examination. It has been evaluated for most clinically relevant cardiac imaging modalities. In many instances the results have been rather sobering. A considerable variability in the visual assessment of coronary artery stenosis severity has been shown between different readers of coronary angiograms.1 A high reader disagreement has been shown for interpretation of dobutamine stress echocardiograms.2 The high variability in the interpretation of dobutamine stress echocardiograms has become a matter of debate and has been used as an argument to doubt the diagnostic competence of the method. Low image quality, a large variability in test performance, and insufficient standardization in image interpretation without any . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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