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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Oncol. 2021 Apr 18;124(3):271–281. doi: 10.1002/jso.26500

Table 5:

Distribution of non-parathyroid tissues in the dataset that was misclassified by PTeye™ (FP – false positives)

Tissue type Number of FP readings
(n, %)
Mean Detection Ratio Range of Detection
Ratios
Thyroid nodules 10 (52.5%) 3.1 1.4 – 12.3
Lymph node 4 (21.1%) 4.5 1.8 – 9.0
Brown fat 2 (10.5%) 8.4 5.7 – 11.0
Yellow fat 1 (5.3%) 1.5 1.5
Thymus 1 (5.3%) 1.4 1.4
Paratracheal tissue 1 (5.3%) 2.0 2.0
Total 19 (100%) 3.8 1.4 – 12.3