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Table 2 Absorbed dose per activity (in Gy/GBq) for the submandibular and parotid glands under different stimulations

From: Chewing-gum stimulation did not reduce the absorbed dose to salivary glands during radioiodine treatment of thyroid cancer as inferred from pre-therapy 124I PET/CT imaging

Gland type

Statistics

Stimulation group

 

Chewing-gum

Non-stimulation a

Lemon-juice a

Submandibular gland

Mean (median)

0.22 (0.22)

0.24 (0.22)

0.35 (0.29)

±SD (min to max)

0.09 (0.09 to 0.36)

0.08 (0.14 to 0.45)

0.14 (0.20 to 0.67)

Deviation (%)b

−37 (0.04)

−31 (0.09)

Reference

Parotid gland

Mean (median)

0.22 (0.20)

0.21 (0.19)

0.33 (0.32)

±SD (min to max)

0.08 (0.07 to 0.44)

0.05 (0.16 to 0.31)

0.09 (0.15 to 0.48)

Deviation (%)b

−33 (<0.001)

−36 (<0.001)

Reference

  1. aData were taken from reference [10] and used to re-assess the absorbed doses using the three-point model. bPercentage deviation from the mean of the lemon-juice stimulation group (reference) and its significant difference level (within parentheses).