Evaluation of a method based on synthetic data inserted into raw data prior to reconstruction for the assessment of PET scanners

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Table 6 Results from the statistical tests performed on RC values for overall and individual algorithm data

	Mann–Whitney U test (P value)	Spearman correlation test (ρ, P value)	Bland–Altman plot [d ± 1.96SD (%)]
RC_mean	0.611	0.974, P value < 0.001	2.1 ± 16.9%
OSEM RC_mean	0.599	0.979, P value < 0.001	4.4 ± 14.5%
BPL RC_mean	0.650	0.960, P value < 0.001	− 0.32 ± 18.1%
RC_max	0.720	0.974, P value < 0.001	3.3 ± 22.3%
OSEM RC_max	0.578	0.977, P value < 0.001	5.9 ± 22.2%
BPL RC_max	0.853	0.967, P value < 0.001	0.77 ± 21.6%