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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2007 Jan;48(1):100–107.

TABLE 1.

Mean Residence Times of Identified Source Organs

Residence time (h)
Organ Thin-slice Bisected 2D planar
Brain 0.086 ± 0.016 0.091 ± 0.010 0.093 ± 0.011
Heart 0.012 ± 0.002 0.019 ± 0.005 0.049 ± 0.011
Kidneys 0.080 ± 0.008 0.101 ± 0.011 0.141 ± 0.015
Liver 0.193 ± 0.064 0.173 ± 0.042 0.195 ± 0.060
Lungs 0.462 ± 0.106 0.459 ± 0.087 0.450 ± 0.098
Red marrow 0.283 ± 0.064 0.106 ± 0.027 0.093 ± 0.036
Testes 0.003 ± 0.001 0.006 ± 0.001 0.010 ± 0.002
Thyroid 0.003 ± 0.0003 0.004 ± 0.002 0.008 ± 0.002
Remainder of body 0.538 ± 0.072 0.767 ± 0.072 0.742 ± 0.057

Values are mean ± SD of 7 subjects.