In order to have confidence in the magnitude of the mean ADC change that can be reliably ascertained on individual scanners, the readers should validate the measurement reproducibility of their own diagnostic system using a particular imaging sequence on their MR scanners.
Nor can the number of participants in these conversations, taking place around the Internet, be reliably ascertained.
Another strength is that age at diagnosis was able to be reliably ascertained, a common shortcoming in other studies.
Attempts to collect embryos at E12.5 yielded only one double mutant in which limb morphology was abnormal, but retarded development meant digit number could not be reliably ascertained.
If an FL patient with a positive Tl at diagnosis is treated by radiation, the treatment response can be reliably ascertained by Tl scintigraphy alone.
We obtained personal details of the celebrities from Wikipedia and specialised websites, although the validity of such information cannot be reliably ascertained.
A few of the model parameters we have incorporated, such as infection probability, incubation periods, relocation probability and relocation ranges, could not be reliably ascertained from the fitting.
Importantly, injury-related visits were reliably ascertained from ED logs, and for most variables, a systematic sample of injury-related visits was representative of the total injured population.
First, not all causes of death were reliably ascertained.
HRQoL is frequently ascertained using the EQ-5D [ 24].
