Fig. 6: The effect of five different sets of calibrants on experimental–experimental projections before and after calibration.

Panels a–c show the effect of five different sets of calibrants on experimental–experimental projections before and after calibration, using RMSERet (a), MedERet (b) and MERet (c) as assessment indexes, respectively. The error bands represent the standard deviation of all corresponding values in each group (nOCMsA = 83,160, nOCMsB = 27,720, nOCMsC = 142,560, nOCMsD = 23,760). Panels d–h show the relation between the RMSERet after calibration, the square of correlation coefficient between the calibrant experimental RTs in ICM and OCM (r2_b), and the square of correlation coefficient between the calibrant experimental RTs in ICM and ReICM (r2_c), using calibrant set A (d), set B (e), set C (f), Set D (g), and Set E (h), respectively. Panel i shows the effect of different ReICMs on post–projection calibrations. Set B was used as calibrants.