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Table 2 Summary of imaging parameters at each centre

From: The relationship between endogenous thymidine concentrations and [18F]FLT uptake in a range of preclinical tumour models

Research Centre

Injected dose (average, MBq)

Measurement time

PET scanner

Reconstruction method

CRUK Cambridge Institute (CI)

8.3

60–65 min

NanoScan PET/CT pre-clinical PET scanner (Mediso)

3D OSEM

AstraZeneca (AZ)

8.3

50–60 min

Inveon Siemens PET scanner

2D FBP

Imperial College London (IC)

3.7

50–60 min

Inveon Siemens PET scanner

2D OSEM

WMIC Manchester

9.5

57.5–62.5 and 55–65 min (FCT113 only)

quadHIDAC small animal PET scanner (Oxford Positron Systems)

or

Inveon Siemens PET scanner (U87 and FCT113 only)

OPL-EM

or

3D-OSEM/MAP