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Table 4 Summary of average drug detection rates per study sample

From: Mass spectrometry detection of inhaled drug in distal fibrotic lung

Biopsy sample ID

Biopsy type

Number of sections analysed

Number of sections with drug observed

% Success

Average % success for endobronchial samples

4A

Transbronchial

25

5

20

 

4B

Endobronchial

26

5

19

 

4C

Endobronchial

12

8

67

 

4D

Endobronchial

8

3

38

34.8

5A

Transbronchial

14

1

7

 

5B

Endobronchial

8

6

75

 

5C

Endobronchial

8

8

100

 

5D

Endobronchial

4

4

100

90.0

6A

Transbronchial

12

1

8

 

6B

Transbronchial

12

0

0

 

6C

Endobronchial

9

1

11

 

6D

Endobronchial

11

4

36

23.5*

6E†

Endobronchial

7

0

0†

25†

8A

Transbronchial

11

4

36

 

8B

Endobronchial

7

1

14

 

8C

Endobronchial

9

2

22

 

8D

Endobronchial

5

3

60

28.6

  1. *Average success rate while incorporating sample 6E is 23.5%
  2. †Due to issues we had with generating suitable sections from sample 6E for MALDI-MS imaging we have recalculated the average success for sample 6 excluding the data from biopsy E, updated result is 25%