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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Nucl Med. 2008 Sep;38(5):321–334. doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.05.008

Table 3.

Relative error (in %) in organ activity estimates for the 3 collimators and various reconstruction methods.

Organ/ROI LEHR Collimator MEGP Collimator HEGP Collimator

OSEM ADS OSEM AGS OSEM ADS OSEM ADS PVC OSMAP ADS OSEM AGS OSEM ADS OSEM ADS PVC OSMAP ADS OSEM AGS

Blood −60.2±1.1 1704 −41.9±51 −9.67±84 −24.63 −14.43 −44.6±52 −4.20±96 −25.17 −35.43

Marrow −37.5±1.4 3343 −19.6±50 −1.08±61 −8.48 32.60 −20.7±47 1.54±60 −8.09 −0.63

Heart −12.1±98 2545 −8.66±37 −0.53±41 −0.97 48.05 −9.24±28 0.02±31 −0.64 18.24

Kidney −19.9±2.7 4384 −10.9±85 2.1±99 −2.71 55.19 −11.4±90 4.0±1.1 −2.11 15.67

Liver −7.5±55 2927 −5.60±22 −0.22±24 0.09 56.46 −5.98±25 0.23±27 0.34 24.03

Lung 6.6±1.2 5100 1.46±37 6.60±42 −0.15 88.03 1.98±36 7.45±42 0.30 39.41

Spleen −25.6±2.4 2378 −12.9±64 −0.56±73 −7.30 31.74 −13.4±64 0.83±66 −7.69 7.25