Table 1 The different locations, the volumes and the corresponding ratio between increased metabolic activity normal metabolic activity in bone
From: A multicentre simulation study of planar whole-body bone scintigraphy in Sweden
Location | Volume (cm3) | Case number | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
a) The cranium | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1.0 |
b) Scapula | 6.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
c) Humerus | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 |
d) Rib | 4.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
e) Thoracic vertebral column | 13.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 |
f) Lumbar vertebral column | 13.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 |
g) Os ileum | 6.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
h) Os pubis | 5.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
i) Sacrum | 2.6 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.0 |
j) Femur diaphysis | 4.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 |