Ratio of displaced Partial-scan (n=64) Full scan (n=64) Average CT (n=8)
Volume (%)* HU HU HU
54.1 -0.6 -2.3 -3
71.4 -0.1 -1.2 -6
90.9 1 0.5 -6
117.6 2.9 0.4 -10
Mean±SD 0.8±1.6 -0.7±1.4 -6.3±2.9
*Ratio of displaced volume = maximum sphere displacement/sphere diameter×100 (%). True HU is 0
Abbreviations: HU=Hounsfield units, CT=computed tomography Note that (n=64) in the tables stands for two 18F radioactive lesion activities of four spheres gating in eight phases and that (n=8) stands for two 18F radioactive lesion activities of four spheres
Table 1: Comparison of average Hounsfield units (HU) in computed tomography (CT) images acquired by different reconstruction techniques.