Characteristics of patients and CVFs to which the fully trained denoising algorithm was applied

Characteristics
Total patients12
No. female8
Total number of CVFs10 (1 CVF in each positive case)
No. right-sided CVFs7
Levels of CVFs (No.)T3 (2), T6 (2), T7 (1), T8 (3), T10 (1), T12 (1)
No. CVFs only visible on denoised images (occult on smooth B656 kernel or noisy Qr89 images)5
No. CVFs visible on all series (Br56, Qr89, Qr89 denoised) but with improved diagnostic confidence and best visualization on denoised Qr89 images5
No CVFs present2