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Table 5 Intra-rater reliability and agreement -ICC values and corresponding confidence intervals and mean difference with agreement intervals

From: Musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound imaging for thickness measurement of four principal muscles of the cervical spine -a reliability and agreement study

Muscle

Repeatability between days - same image measured on two separate occasions

Repeatability between scans – measurement of two different images of the same muscle

ICC (95% CI)

Mean difference (95% LoA)(mm)

ICC (95% CI)

Mean difference (95% LoA)(mm)

Right Lcol

0.97 (.94–.98)

0.00 (−0.90; 0.90)

0.82 (.70–.89)

0.03 (−2.07; 2.14)

Right Rcpm

0.95 (.89–.97)

0.17 (−0.73; 1.95)

0.86 (.75–.93)

−0.17 (−1.57; 1.23)

Right Dce

0.81 (.70–.89)

0.02 (−1.70; 1.74)

0.52 (.29–.70)

−0.11 (−2.66; 2.44)

Right Sscap

0.97 (.95–.99)

−0.01 (−0.34; 0.32)

0.95 (.91–.97)

0.02 (−0.37; 0.37)