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Table 3 Activity distributions in tumour tissue of Pt 1

From: Heterogeneity of microsphere distribution in resected liver and tumour tissue following selective intrahepatic radiotherapy

 

Liver lobe

Left

Right

Mass (mg)

15 ≤ m ≤ 26

54 ≤ m ≤ 104

49 ≤ m ≤ 73

76 ≤ m ≤ 90

m ¯ (mg)

21

75

60

82

n

16

16

9

9

Spheres ¯ /biopsy

1,500

3,000

1,100

980

A ¯ / m ¯ (Bq/mg)

3,600

2,000

910

610

CV

0.49

0.75

0.66

0.51

SK

−0.46

0.82

1.0

0.64

  1. CV, coefficient of variation; m ¯ , mean mass of n tissue biopsies; Spheres ¯ /biopsy, average number of spheres per biopsy; A ¯ / m ¯ , mean activity concentration; SK, skew of the distribution.