Site-Based Analysis of Changes in Image Interpretation After PET/CT
Criteria | Head and neck | Chest | Abdominopelvic | Soft tissue and bone | Total | |||||
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Precise lesion characterization and localization on PET after PET/CT | ||||||||||
As benign | 2 | 34 | 16 | 8 | 60 | |||||
As malignant | 5 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 31 | |||||
Precise localization of malignant lesion | — | 12 | 17 | 8 | 37 | |||||
Retrospective lesion detection after PET/CT | ||||||||||
On PET | 2 | 4 | 1 | — | 7 | |||||
On CT* | 6 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 63 | |||||
Total† (%) | 12 | 71 | 61 | 34 | 178 | |||||
(32) | (24) | (41) | (31) | (30) |