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Table 1 Overview of various KF methods and their corresponding settings

From: Metabolically active tumour volume segmentation from dynamic [18F]FLT PET studies in non-small cell lung cancer

KF version

KC

Description

Undetected lesions

1

H’smith

Original KF algorithm

13

2

H’smith

Temporal smoothing was added

11

3

H’smith

Frame times of the scan data adjusted

2

4

H’smith

Liver KC reclassified as tumour KC, classification of 9- to 60-min p.i.

4

5

H’smith

Liver KC reclassified as tumour KC, classification of 20- to 60-min p.i.

2

6

H’smith

Liver KC omitted

6

7

H’smith

Liver and vertebrae KS omitted

1

8

VUmc

Original KF algorithm

10

9

VUmc

Liver KC reclassified as tumour KC, temporal smoothing, classification of 15- to 60-min p.i.

2

  1. Only the results of the original KF and the eight most successful adaptations are provided. KC, kinetic class; KF, kinetic filtering; p.i., post injection.