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92Chapter5introducedtovisualizetheARhologramofthecorrespondingpatientandthesamequestionsusedtoassessthe3DprintweregiveninthethirdquestionnaireTheaboveeventstookplacein1sessionperexpertforamaximumof3hoursusedtoscoreall3modalitiesforthe10patientsThecycleofquestionnairesforconventionalimaging3DprintandARwasrepeatedforeverypatientresultingintheopinionsofthe7expertsaboutall10patientsSTATISTICALANALYSISStatisticalanalyseswereperformedusingGraphPadprismversion7(GraphPadSoftware)TocomparescoresontheMRIand/orCT,3DprintandARhologramthenonparametric-groupedWilcoxonmatched-pairsignedranktestwasusedTheMann-Whitneytestwasusedtocomparethedifferencebetweenquestionsaboutthe4anatomicalstructuresfortheindividualpatientsA2-sidedP<025(adjusted formultiple testing) wasused to test forasignificantdifferencebetweentheconventionalimagingandthe3DvisualizationsRESULTSPATIENTCHARACTERISTICSAND3D VISUALIZATIONSOf the10 patients 7 were girls and the mean (SD) age was 37 (17) years ThekidneyWT,arteriesveinsandurinarycollectingstructureswerereconstructedasshowninFigure1Forpatient2theurinarycollectingstructureswerenotreconstructedbecauseofinsufficientconventionalimaging Thecharacteristicsof the10patientsaresummarizedinTable1Forall4anatomicalstructuresthe3DprintandtheARhologramreceivedhigherscorescomparedwiththeconventionalimaging(Figure2)Whenscoresforthe4anatomicalstructureswerecomparedbetweenthe3DprintandtheARhologramnodifferencewasfound(Figure2)
