Impact of time-of-flight PET on quantification accuracy and lesion detection in simultaneous 18F-choline PET/MRI for prostate cancer

EJNMMI Research

Table 4 Average SUV_max and SUV_max difference (difference significant if p < 0.05)

Site	TOF	TOF SD^a	Non-TOF	Non-TOF SD^a	n-TOF - TOF	p value	Highest value
Skull bone	− 0.71	0.19	0.87	0.24	0.16	< 0.001	non-TOF
C7	3.88	0.81	3.51	0.81	− 0.37	0.050	NS
TH12	5.69	1.4	2.73	1.17	− 2.96	< 0.001	TOF
L5	4.99	1.48	3.56	1.32	− 1.43	< 0.001	TOF
Femoral head	0.98	0.68	0.53	0.61	− 0.45	< 0.001	TOF
Pelvic bone	4	1.26	3.3	1.24	− 0.7	0.003	TOF
Kidney	17.98	3.31	17	3.38	− 0.98	< 0.001	TOF
Ischioanal fossa	1.46	0.36	1.35	0.4	− 0.11	1	NS
M. gluteus	2.12	0.63	2.06	0.61	− 0.06	1	NS
Prostate lesion	8.42	2.41	7.34	2.44	− 1.08	< 0.001	TOF
Lymph node lesion	8.66	3.55	7.03	3.54	− 1.63	< 0.001	TOF
Osseous lesion	9.46	6.57	8.23	6.33	− 1.24	0.008	TOF