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Table 6 Changes in SUV max with lesions with borderline values for malignancy

From: Impact of point spread function modelling and time of flight on FDG uptake measurements in lung lesions using alternative filtering strategies

Volume

SUV max

Matched noise

Matched SUV max

(ml)

OSEM

TOF

HD

UHD

TOF

HD

UHD

1.26

2.1

2.4

2.8

3.6

2.2

1.8

1.9

9.26

2.2

2.9

2.9

4.0

2.8

2.3

2.9

2.80

2.2

2.5

3.2

3.6

2.3

2.2

2.2

1.99

2.4

2.8

3.2

4.2

2.7

2.2

2.4

6.04

2.5

3.1

3.3

4.3

3.0

2.7

3.2

1.83

2.7

3.4

3.8

5.5

3.2

2.5

3.0

3.99

2.8

3.1

3.6

4.0

3.0

2.8

3.0

1.52

3.2

4.0

4.5

6.3

3.8

2.9

3.4

8.90

3.2

3.6

4.3

5.2

3.4

3.0

3.3

1.56

3.4

4.0

4.9

6.8

3.8

3.1

3.6

2.51

3.4

4.2

4.6

6.4

4.0

3.3

4.0

6.33

3.5

4.0

4.3

5.3

3.8

3.4

3.7

1.40

3.9

4.1

6.0

6.9

3.9

3.8

3.8

14.22

4.4

4.6

4.9

5.2

4.5

4.3

4.5

2.06

4.5

5.6

7.0

8.5

5.4

4.7

4.2

  1. SUVmax values for patients with low uptake (<5.0) for suspicion of malignancy and the SUVmax data obtained from the PSF and TOF-based algorithms using the two post-filter strategies. The left column shows the lesion volume as measured from the OSEM PET image using a 40% threshold. Values in bold represent lesions that would have changed classification using a strict SUVmax cut-off of 5.0. Values in italics represent increases of greater than 25%.