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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Dec;11(12):e008325. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008325

Table 2.

Comparison of 18F-NaF diastolic gate measurements of the hybrid (single session) PET/CTA2 and prior CTA (PET/CTA1) datasets.

Hybrid Prior CTA P value
Lesion SUVmax 1.16±0.40 1.15±0.39 0.53
Lesion with tracer uptake SUVmax 1.71±0.44 1.72±0.45 0.47
Lesion w/o tracer uptake SUVmax 1.03±0.17 1.05±0.18 0.48
Left atrium (background) 1.14±0.15 1.13±0.16 0.63
Background noise 0.09±0.04 0.09±0.04 0.71
Target to background ratio for all lesions 1.10±0.45 1.09±0.46 0.55
Signal to noise ratio 25.7±12.6 25.2±11.9 0.49

SUVmax= maximal standard uptake. CTA= coronary CT angiography.