Skip to main content

Table 1 Enrolled patients’ clinical characteristics and lesion distribution

From: Enhancing 18F-FDG PET image quality and lesion diagnostic performance across different body mass index using the deep progressive learning reconstruction algorithm

Characteristics

Underweight (n = 42)

Normal (n = 66)

Overweight (n = 42)

P

Age(years)

63.4 ± 13.8

61.2 ± 10.7

63.5 (51.5,70.0)

0.23

Sex

   

0.22

 Male

19

41

22

 

 Female

23

25

20

 

BMI (kg/m²)

17.3 (16.6,17.7)

22.1 (20.8,23.1)

27.5 ± 2.9

<0.001

Blood glucose (mmol/L)

5.9 ± 1.1

5.7 ± 1.3

5.5 (4.8,6.5)

0.54

Injected dose (MBq)

171.1 (163.9,190.2)

223.9 (210.2,243.8)

276.9 ± 41.3

<0.001

Injected dose/weight (MBq/kg)

3.8 ± 0.3

3.8 ± 0.3

3.7 ± 0.2

0.26

Uptake time (min)

68.0 (55.1,79.3)

65.1 (58.7,75.4)

69.5 ± 16.2

0.92

Primary cancer type*

    

 Bone cancer

0/1

1/1

0/1

 

 Breast cancer

2/12

6/12

4/12**

 

 Cervical cancer

2/5

2/5

1/5

 

 Colorectal cancer

4/11

2/11**

5/11

 

 Duodenal cancer

0/1

1/1

0/1

 

 Epithelial cancer

1/3

0/3

2/3

 

 Esophageal cancer

6/23

13/23**

4/23

 

 Gastric cancer

6/7**

1/7

0/7

 

 Hypopharynx cancer

1/2

1/2

0/2

 

 Kidney cancer

0/2

2/2

0/2

 

 Liver cancer

1/3

1/3

1/3

 

 Lung cancer

11/45

18/45**

16/45**

 

 Lymphoma

3/17

7/17

7/17

 

 Malignant melanoma

1/2

0/2

1/2

 

 Nasopharynx cancer

1/6

3/6

2/6

 

 Ovarian cancer

0/3

3/3

0/3

 

 Pancreatic cancer

1/6

5/6**

0/6

 

 Sarcoma

1/2

1/2

0/2

 

 Spindle cell tumor

1/1

0/1

0/1

 

 Squamous cell carcinoma

0/1

1/1

0/1

 

 Thyroid cancer

1/1**

0/1

0/1

 
  1. * The fraction’s denominator represents the number of patients with the primary type of tumor, while the numerator represents the number of patients with the primary type of tumor in the corresponding different BMI groups. ** Indicates that four patients had dual cancers: one with pancreatic and lung cancer, one with esophageal and colorectal cancer, one with breast and lung cancer and one with thyroid and gastric cancer