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Table 2 Effective and biological half-lives determined from the mono-exponential fits to the data of radiotracer uptakes in organs and lesions in children patients

From: Patient-specific dosimetry of 99mTc-HYNIC-Tyr3-Octreotide in children

Organ

Effective half-life (hour)

Biological half-life (hour)

LKidney

4.72 ± 1.08 (2.44–5.93)

69.5 ± 117.1 (4.1–431.4)

RKidney

4.94 ± 1.32 (1.57–5.99)

308.5 ± 534.2 (2.1–1873.3)

Liver

5.07 ± 0.76 (3.04–5.99)

182.4 ± 429.6 (6.1–1521.6)

Spleena

5.83 ± 1.33 (4.26–8.22)

15.0 ± 42.8 (− 54.8–90.5)

Tumors

4.18 ± 1.21 (2.86–5.71)

35.0 ± 45.7 (5.4–112.9)

  1. aThe effective half-life of spleens in four of the patients were higher than 99mTc physical half-life