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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2017 May 24;44(10):1682–1691. doi: 10.1007/s00259-017-3720-6

Table 4.

Discordance between visual analysis and pharmacokinetic modeling for identification of patients with hypoxia (n=72 patients).

Baseline Early response
Patients with no hypoxic lesions according to TMR>1.2 (VA-) 3 23
Patients with no hypoxic lesions according to k3>0.0026 min−1 (PM-) 4 15
VA−, PM− 1 10
VA−, PM+ 2 13
VA+, PM+ 66 44
VA+, PM− 3 5

TMR - Tumor-to-Muscle Ratio, VA - visual analysis, PM - pharmacokinetic modeling