Molecular Imaging of Mesothelioma with ^99mTc-ECG and ⁶⁸Ga-ECG

Table 3

Biodistribution of ¹⁸F-FDG in mesothelioma-bearing rats.

	Percentage of injected dose per gram of tissue weight (𝑛=3/time, interval, iv)^1
	30 min	90 min	180 min
Blood	0.45±0.07	0.15±0.01	0.07±0.01
Heart	3.42±1.14	1.95±0.40	1.94±0.45
Lung	0.60±0.07	0.53±0.03	0.46±0.06
Thyroid	0.65±0.04	0.47±0.05	0.54±0.04
Pancreas	0.22±0.02	0.21±0.02	0.21±0.03
Liver	0.51±0.08	0.33±0.03	0.23±0.03
Spleen	0.88±0.08	0.87±0.06	0.98±0.10
Kidney	0.85±0.13	0.43±0.04	0.23±0.01
Stomach	0.55±0.03	0.40±0.03	0.38±0.02
Intestine	0.94±0.16	1.00±0.22	0.62±0.07
Uterus	0.52±0.06	0.57±0.08	0.39±0.09
Tumor	1.86±0.22	1.63±0.19	1.38±0.35
Muscle	0.45±0.14	0.23±0.03	0.42±0.06
Bone	0.21±0.09	0.14±0.07	0.24±0.06
Brain	2.36±0.10	2.24±0.20	1.89±0.35
Tumor/blood	4.19±0.44	11.01±1.60	19.41±2.05
Tumor/muscle	5.75±2.55	7.40±1.67	3.33±0.65
Tumor/brain	0.77±0.09	0.72±0.02	0.71±0.05
Uterus/muscle	1.58±0.69	2.50±0.37	0.94±0.16
Tumor/lung	3.18±0.44	3.41±0.43	2.92±0.34

¹Values shown represent the mean ± standard deviation of data from 3 animals.