TABLE V.
Statistics of the hounsfield unit (HU) distributions for 17 structures across 120 CTA scans from the proposed method.
| (HU) | Empirical percentiles | Percentile difference | Interpatient variability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structure type | 25% | Median | 75% | |25%-75%| | SD of medians |
| LV | 349 | 503 | 561 | 212 | 138 |
| LA | 503 | 543 | 577 | 73 | 163 |
| LVM | 47 | 74 | 101 | 54 | 14 |
| LAA | 372 | 507 | 576 | 204 | 128 |
| RV | 85 | 120 | 154 | 69 | 48 |
| RA | 65 | 96 | 125 | 61 | 42 |
| AA | 528 | 568 | 599 | 71 | 140 |
| WH | 44 | 115 | 380 | 336 | 40 |
| SVC | 81 | 114 | 145 | 65 | 97 |
| IVC | 43 | 68 | 93 | 50 | 27 |
| PA | 125 | 155 | 180 | 56 | 62 |
| PV | 461 | 507 | 547 | 86 | 161 |
| DA | 453 | 503 | 546 | 93 | 134 |
| Spine | 49 | 169 | 295 | 246 | 49 |
| Liver | 19 | 46 | 73 | 54 | 15 |
| CW | 31 | 71 | 132 | 101 | 20 |
| Lung | −840 | −791 | −721 | 119 | 79 |