Computational simulation of the predicted dosimetric impact of adjuvant yttrium-90 PET/CT-guided percutaneous ablation following radioembolization

EJNMMI Research

Table 3 Summary of RF ablation locations and tumor volume change

Patient	Number of ablation sites	Ablation time (s)	Pre-ablation tumor volume (cm³)	Post-ablation tumor volume (cm³)	Percentage volume change
1	1	600	124.1	112.9	9.9
2^a	3	600/600/600	270.4	239.7	12.8
2^a	2	600/600	241.3	217.0	11.2
3	2	600/420	276.4	253.9	8.9
4	2	600/600	100.7	78.1	28.9
5	2	600/360	374.6	352.9	6.1
6	1	600	44.4	32.5	36.6
7	2	600/600	203.2	177.7	14.4
8	2	220/220	220.9	212.2	4.1
9	3	600/360/360	213.4	192.7	10.7
10	1	600	42.5	29.9	42.1
11	2	260/260	60.2	54.1	11.3
12	4	600/600/600/600	104.7	82.4	27.1
13	4	600/600/600/600	323.4	299.1	8.1
14	2	600/600	258.2	240.1	7.5

^aPatient 2 had two large independent foci in different liver segments, which were treated independently in this analysis