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Table 2.

Quantitative parameters analyzed from DCE kinetics of metastatic cancer subgroups with different primary cancer

	Peak SE%	Max Wash-in SE %	Ktrans (1/min)	kep (1/min)	DCE Patterns^†
Lung (N=7)	159 ± 43 %	104 ± 27 %	0.075 ± 0.020	0.49 ± 0.23	2WO/4PLT/1PSE
Tyroid (N=5) Liver (N=4)	173 ± 45 % 123 ± 19 %	128 ± 44 % 92 ± 20 %	0.083 ± 0.021 0.059 ± 0.011	0.61 ± 0.29 0.44 ± 0.29	4WO/1PSE 2WO/1PLT/1PSE
Breast (N=3)	206 ± 110 %	143 ± 74 %	0.100 ± 0.052	0.53 ± 0.20	2WO/1PLT
Kidney (N=2)	173 ± 122 %	92 ± 51 %	0.080 ± 0.057	0.54 ± 0.22	1WO/1PLT
Prostate (N=1)	199 %	86 %	0.058	0.58	1WO

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WO: wash-out pattern; PLT: plateau pattern; PSE: persistent enhancement pattern All presented data are group mean ± standard deviation