Site Compliance with Select Image Acquisition Parameters and Overall Quality
| Site no. (n) | 18F-FDG dose (MBq) (mean [SD]) | Scan start time relative to 18F-FDG dose (min) (mean [SD]) | Patients within 50–70 min (%) | Between-scan time difference (min) (mean [SD]) | Patients within 15 min (%) | Days between baseline scans (mean [SD]) | Patients with acceptable QA data (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scan 1 | Scan 2 | Scan 1 | Scan 2 | Scan 1 | Scan 2 | |||||
| 1 (2) | 570 (4) | 551 (11) | 52 (1) | 55 (3) | 100 | 100 | 3 (4) | 100 | 4.3 (0.4) | 0 |
| 2 (8) | 470 (107) | 470* (96) | 55 (0) | 55 (0) | 100 | 100 | 0 (0) | 100 | 5.3 (1.0) | 88 |
| 3 (3) | 596 (30) | 640 (70) | 77 (14) | 67 (14) | 33 | 67 | −10 (25) | 67 | 7.0 (1.3) | 100 |
| 4 (18) | 448 (48) | 448 (56) | 109 (31) | 109 (25) | 0 | 0 | −1 (37) | 39 | 3.5 (2.1) | 61 |
| 5 (5) | 426 (104) | 418 (89) | 63 (27) | 80 (11) | 60 | 40 | 17 (35) | 40 | 8.0 (2.4) | 80 |
| 6 (11) | 574 (33) | 577 (30) | 61 (6) | 53 (16) | 91 | 73 | −8 (20) | 82 | 2.9 (1.7) | 82 |
| 7 (13) | 418 (85) | 426 (85) | 64 (6) | 68 (7) | 92 | 77 | 4 (8) | 92 | 2.8 (3.0) | 85 |
| 8 (1) | 307 (—) | 229 (—) | 54 (—) | 66 (—) | 100 | 100 | 12 (—) | 100 | 7.0 (—) | 0 |
| All (61) | 470 (93) | 474 (100) | 76 (29) | 76 (28) | 61 | 54 | 0.4 (25) | 70 | 4.1 (2.6) | 74 |
↵* 18F-FDG dose for could not be confirmed for single patient.