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. 2017 Mar 6;44(8):1337–1346. doi: 10.1007/s00259-017-3650-3

Table 3.

Reproducibility of tumour to reference tissue ratios (T/R) for [68Ga]-ABY-025 PET high peptide dose at 2 hours after injection using various reference tissues

Reference tissue Test, T/R Retest, T/R P Repeatability coefficient (absolute) Repeatability coefficient (relative)
Spleen (dual VOI) 8.5 ± 6.7 8.1 ± 7.0 0.74 2.90 14.6%
Spleen (simple ROI) 8.4 ± 6.6 8.6 ± 6.8 0.91 3.34 18.7%
Lung (ventral) 20.4 ± 18.6 20.1 ± 17.8 0.85 5.34 20.1%
Lung (hilus level) 20.9 ± 17.4 21.0 ± 17.0 0.91 5.01 16.4%
Lung (dorsal) 16.0 ± 12.0 15.8 ± 13.0 0.80 3.81 17.2%
Liver 3.2 ± 3.0 2.7 ± 2.1 0.91 1.72 24.0%
Kidney 0.42 ± 0.41 0.39 ± 0.36 0.74 0.222 28.2%
Blood pool (heart) 5.6 ± 4.6 5.4 ± 3.9 0.97 2.06 12.3%
Blood pool (aorta) 8.1 ± 6.0 8.8 ± 6.8 0.80 3.40 24.4%
Shoulder muscle 27.9 ± 25.3 25.0 ± 19.5 0.97 12.2 13.2%
Dorsal spine muscle 31.0 ± 22.2 29.8 ± 20.2 0.80 11.4 23.1%
Gluteal muscle 25.5 ± 22.5 25.5 ± 21.1 0.91 5.26 16.9%
Visceral fat 59.1 ± 75.3 45.3 ± 57.9 0.48 34.3 25.9%
Subcutaneous fat 74.9 ± 51.3 78.2 ± 48.8 0.97 18.6 29.7%
Cerebellum 122 ± 118 84.9 ± 66.1 0.53 135 26.9%
Cerebrum 246 ± 208 460 ± 792 0.91 1597 114%