TABLE I.

Patients (n = 20) with liver metastases were treated with local percutaneous thermal ablation. PET/CT images were acquired during both FB and RS conditions.

						Time Interval
			Segmental	Injected	Uptake time	from
							Maximum SUV (g/ml)
Patient	Age	Sex	locationa	activity(mCi)	(min)	RS to FB (min)	RS	FB	%Diff
1	57	f	4b	4.4	112	−7.7	9.8	10.1	4.0
2	53	m	2	4.4	58	15.3	9.5	9.1	−3.8
3	70	f	6/7	4.4	95	61.2	24.4	19.4	−20.2
4	45	f	8	4.0	66	10.5	7.2	5.5	−23.1
5	47	m	5/6	4.2	80	9.5	8.7	7.1	−19.0
6	52	f	…	4.4	85	10.5	21.9	16.2	−26.1
7	37	f	7	4.0	97	6.5	7.2	6.2	−14.6
8	53	f	8/4a	4.3	85	10.0	15.8	13.7	−13.6
9	52	f	…	4.0	50	10.0	9.1	5.7	−37.8
10	69	f	4	4.2	60	10.5	9.3	8.5	−9.3
11	66	f	7	4.3	94	27.7	10.4	8.7	−16.2
12	52	m	…	4.1	133	9.9	26.8	21.9	−18.1
13	68	f	8	4.2	92	13.6	5.6	5.7	2.5
14	61	m	8	4.4	67	16.5	13.7	10.8	−20.7
15	67	m	5	4.1	67	13.6	14.8	13.3	−10.3
16	62	m	4a	4.1	64	7.6	10.1	8.1	−19.7
17	65	m	6/7	4.4	78	10.0	6.7	6.3	−5.5
18	65	m	8	4.0	110	13.5	4.4	4.8	7.4
19	52	f	7	4.0	60	65.4	19.7	24.5	24.2
20	52	m	2	4.0	83	28.2	10.9	11.7	7.3
Mean	59			4.2	82	17.1			−15.4
St.dev	8			0.2	21	17.4			10.5
p-value							0.01 (≤ 0.05)
z-score							2.8 (≥ 2.0)

^aThe Couinaud segmental anatomy of the liver.