Sentence examples for a standardised uptake from inspiring English sources

Uptake is shown as a standardised uptake value (SUV).

Using a standardised uptake time of 60 min, the calculated threshold in our setup value would be 3.8 MBq/kg.

After a standardised uptake time of 60 min (range 52 74 min) unenhanced low dose CT and PET emission data were acquired from the mid-thigh to the vertex of the skull.

Regions of interest (ROIs) for different organs (thyroid, salivary glands, stomach and bladder) were manually defined around each organ (vide infra) in order to express 18F uptake in each organ as a standardised uptake value (SUV).

Swisher et al.[ 104 ] found a standardised uptake value >4 to be an independent predictor of survival in a study of 103 patients.

Further normalisation was performed using the injected dose (from the dose calibrator) and animal weight to give a standardised uptake value (SUV); SUVmax was calculated from the maximum voxel value within the ROI and SUVmean as the average overall voxels.

A maximum standardised uptake value (SUV) was obtained from a region of interest drawn over the largest area of a lesion.

In the largest published study involving 315 patients a maximum standardised uptake value (SUVmax of ≥10) was found to be a significant prognostic factor for disease free survival and overall survival (p < 0.001)[ 19 ].

This corresponds to a mean standardised uptake value (SUV) of (5.91 ± 1.54) (95% CI (5.64 to 6.17) SUV).

Peng et al. confirmed the association between permanent uptake and rapid relapse versus decreased uptake and favourable response in rhabdomyosarcoma[ 71 ], as did Kasper et al., by demonstrating a significant difference in the progression-free survival for patients with a decrease in the standardised uptake value in comparison with patients with an increased or stable SUV[ 72 ].

A recent publication analysing FDG PET in 275 women with primary breast cancer demonstrated a positive relationship between standardised uptake value (SUV) and oestrogen receptor status (p < 0.001).