Usefulness of FDG, MET and FLT-PET Studies for the Management of Human Gliomas

Table 1

Patient characteristics and semiquantitative PET results for FDG, MET, and FLT. Dig: histological diagnosis, DA: diffuse astrocytoma, OA: oligoastrocytoma, O: oligodendroglioma, AA: anaplastic astrocytoma, AOA: anaplastic oligoastrocytoma, AO: anaplastic oligodendroglioma, GBM: glioblastoma multiforme, GS: gliosarcoma, SUV max maximum standardized uptake value, T/N ratio tumor-to-normal tissue count density.

Case	Age	Sex	Dig.	Ki-67 (%)	FDG SUV max	FDG T/N	MET SUV max	MET T/N	FLT SUV max	FLT T/N
1	49	f	DA	1.75	4.12	0.403526	2.93	1.7757576	0.13	1.1818182
2	42	f	OA	7.5	4.4	0.5231867	4.37	2.5406977	0.24	1.8461538
3	52	f	DA	1	4.96	0.5025329	3.34	1.9306358	0.55	3.6666667
4	71	m	DA	4	3.85	0.6514382	5.28	4.3278689	0.76	5.4285714
5	30	m	DA	2.5	5.65	0.495614	1.69	1	0.28	1
6	35	f	DA	2.5	5.78	0.5254545	1.57	1	0.23	1
7	30	f	DA	5	5.89	0.356	1.49	1.18254	0.18	1
8	27	f	O	2.3	5.34	0.8215385	1.38	1.5164835	0.18	1.125
9	49	f	DA	5	2.71	0.5441767	1.7	1.1971831	0.22	1.047619
10	38	f	DA	5	6.07	0.497133	2.55	1.795775	0.28	1.75
11	37	m	DA	1	23.87	2.69	4.97	2.99	0.79	2.72
12	36	m	OA	7.7	8.01	1.055336	5.26	3.094118	0.48	2.181818
13	34	f	AA	5	6.67	0.6778455	3.22	2.2517483	1.15	6.7647059
14	58	m	AA	12.5	4.46	0.566709	3.55	2.9583333	0.28	1.8666667
15	77	f	AA	35	6.98	1.8082902	5.07	3.5454545	0.9	5
16	26	m	AA	5	4.72	0.5777234	3.32	2.862069	0.32	2.6666667
17	66	f	AOA	5	3.97	0.5321716	2.93	2.4016393	0.58	3.0526316
18	60	f	AA	10	7.59	1.1587786	3.41	2.544776	0.94	3.91667
19	36	f	AA	6	4.27	0.5488432	4.81	2.829412	0.37	2.176471
20	43	f	AA	30	4.74	0.629482	8.04	4.345946	0.84	2.470588
21	71	m	AOA	50	24.02	3.1605263	5.17	4.3445378	1.45	6.3043478
22	64	m	AO	50	8.74	1.208852	8.18	6.544	2.51	9.653846
23	28	f	AOA	5	13.5	1.674938	9.02	5.401198	0.98	2.227273
24	79	f	AA	5	47.57	5.3032329	5.96	3.8701299	0.77	5.1333333
25	66	f	AA	12.5	6.23	0.7634803	2.61	1.482955	0.66	2.357143
26	31	f	AA	20	23.05	2.845679	6.49	4.570423	1.64	9.647059
27	45	m	AA	7.5	14.8	1.9865772	6.61	5.1640625	1.06	3.2121212
28	51	m	GBM	25	14.86	2.006192	20.88	5.7246377	11.18	6.0812183
29	22	f	GBM	40	12.69	1.4859485	5.21	3.196319	3.05	11.296296
30	62	m	GBM	35	7.65	0.9634761	4.55	3.64	1.19	7
31	70	f	GBM	35	5.04	0.6990291	3.44	2.3401361	1.37	6.2272727
32	81	f	GBM	50	13.05	2.8935698	5.69	3.6012658	3.74	15.583333
33	55	f	GBM	35	8.99	2.5759312	5.35	3.4294872	2.61	3.1829268
34	29	f	GBM	50	5.5	0.607064	3.57	1.9944134	1.66	8.7368421
35	77	f	GBM	45	4.6	1.281337	5.51	3.3393939	2.15	8.9583333
36	79	m	GBM	65	9.71	2.0442105	4.3	3.5833333	3.68	17.52381
37	69	f	GBM	15	15.1	2.2913505	4.98	3.254902	4.41	23.210526
38	86	f	GBM	30	10.96	1.7734627	5.91	5.472222	2.69	15.82353
39	27	f	GBM	30	6.51	1.4563758	3.83	2.992188	1.53	6.652174
40	61	m	GBM	10	6.07	1.0049669	3.68	3.2857143	1.96	7.5384615
41	53	m	GBM	25	6.61	1.0200617	3.31	3.412371	1.7	8.5
42	62	m	GBM	70	4.86	0.9382239	4.54	4.09009	1.67	15.18182
43	67	m	GBM	30	5.8	0.9148265	2.82	2.014286	1.45	9.0625
44	60	m	GBM	40	5.97	0.894615	2.9	2.788462	1.28	7.111111
45	54	m	GS	40	6.95	0.8742138	3.75	2.218935	2.9	12.6087
46	72	m	GBM	50	5.55	0.9771127	3.22	2.439394	2.28	16.28571
47	68	f	GBM	60	5.94	1.1020408	4.08	2.4	2.99	17.58824
48	53	f	GBM	20	4.76	0.6979472	2.63	1.992424	1.04	6.1176471
49	61	f	GBM	70	12.2	1.75	5.64	5.271028	1.58	5.8518519
50	37	m	GBM	20	10.31	1.19	14.08	9.7777778	1.73	6.1785714
51	33	m	GBM	70	20.16	2.011976	8.71	4.608466	2.85	8.6363636
52	41	f	GBM	20	24.76	3.4057771	7.04	5.1764706	2.22	17.076923
53	26	m	GBM	80	13.32	1.5857143	5.43	3.878571	2.59	4.177419
54	69	m	GBM	90	27.09	5.0166667	8.86	7.5726496	5.44	34