Cardiac function by MRI in congenital heart disease: Impact of consensus training on interinstitutional variance

To investigate the impact of interinstitutional variance (=interobserver variance between institutions) for volumetric and flow cardiac MR (CMR) data and if training on image reading could improve bias.

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