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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2010 Aug 27;55(18):5483–5497. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/18/014

Table 4.

Errors in organ activity estimates at the 5 hr time point with and without registration.

% Heart Lung Liver Kidney Spleen Bone Marrow Blood Vessel
Mean ± STD W 0.4 ± 1.3 4.3 ± 5.6 -0.1 ± 1.6 2.2 ± 2.4 0.2 ± 2.4 6.8 ± 7.2 -6.7 ± 13.5
W/O -6.7 ± 5.2 22.9 ± 18.6 -1.1 ± 7.7 -28.2 ± 17.8 17.8 ± 12.7 -11.2 ± 21.7 -72.2 ± 25.7

Range W -3.1 - 3.1 -11.0 - 16.7 -4.0 - 4.9 -3.1 - 10.9 -4.6 - 8.0 -12.3 - 18.6 -33.4 - 22.8
W/O -20.0 - 2.1 -5.6 - 62.3 -18.3 - 12.9 -1.1 - 69.2 -31.2 - 20.2 -40.0 - 39.2 -95.4 - 35.9

Median W 0.4 4.1 -0.2 1.6 -0.5 8.4 -8.0
W/O -5.8 23.0 -0.2 -23.7 -19.7 -4.6 -80.0

Mean of absolute W 1.0 5.7 1.2 2.4 1.7 8.9 12.5
W/O 6.9 23.2 6.2 28.2 20.2 17.5 72.2

p-value* 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.007 0.001 0.01 <10e-5

W: with registration, W/O: without registration.

*

p-value is for paired t-test comparing activity estimates w/ and w/o registration.