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Table 1 Sensitivity for the detection of intraperitoneal lesions with PET and BLI depending on the site of the tumour

From: Non-invasive imaging of implanted peritoneal carcinomatosis in mice using PET and bioluminescence imaging

n

Site or region

Volume range

Sensitivity PET

Sensitivity BLI

  

[mm3]

[%]

[%]

8

Injection site

0.3–9.0

63 (5/8)

100 (8/8)

2

Peritoneum

1.0–1.8

50 (1/2)

100 (2/2)

7

Diaphragm

0.1–1.8

14 (1/7)

0 (0/7)

13

Liver surface

0.5–3.0

85 (11/13)

8 (1/13)

1

Stomach

0.5

100 (1/1)

0 (0/1)

1

Duodenum

3.0

100 (1/1)

0 (0/1)

21

Jejunum

0.5–10.0

84 (16/21)

48 (10/21)

6

Colon

0.5–6.0

80 (4/6)

33 (2/6)

19

Pancreas

1.0–18

83 (15/19)

79 (15/19)

2

Uterus

1.8–3.0

100 (2/2)

100 (2/2)

2

Bladder

1.8–4.0

50 (1/2)

0 (0/2)

82

Total

0.1–18.0

74 (58/82)*

49 (40/82)*

  1. The table shows the number of malignant lesions [n] with respect to different sites, the volume range and the sensitivities for PET and BLI. The difference between PET and BLI was significant at p < 0.05 (*chi-square 8.2152; p value 0.004154)