Patient Characteristics
Characteristic | Median | Scan 1 | Scan 2 | P |
Patients | 10 | |||
Men | 6 | |||
Age (y) | 61 (45–66) | |||
Tumor type (histology) | ||||
Adenocarcinoma | 7 | |||
Squamous cell carcinoma | 3 | |||
Tumor stage | ||||
IIIb | 3 | |||
IV | 7 | |||
Tumor location: lung | ||||
Lesions per patient | 2 (1–13) | |||
Weight (kg) | 76 (57–110) | 75 (57–113) | 0.781 | |
Number of patients | ||||
60-min uptake interval | 10 | 10 | ||
90-min uptake interval | 10 | 8* | ||
Number of lesions | ||||
60-min uptake interval | 26 | 26 | ||
90-min uptake interval | 26 | 18* | ||
Injected activity (MBq) | 248 (194–377) | 238 (192–392) | 0.800 | |
Scan start time (min) | ||||
60-min uptake interval | 61 (59–67) | 60 (60–63) | 0.293 | |
90-min uptake interval | 92 (90–97) | 90 (90–95) | 0.219 |
↵* For 2 patients, 90-min PET scans were not collected because of patients’ inability to comply with scan duration.
Qualitative data are expressed as number; continuous data are expressed as median followed by range in parentheses. P values are from Wilcoxon signed-rank test.