Clinical Study
Demonstrating Intertumoural Differences in Vascular-Metabolic
Phenotype with Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT-PET
(a) Demographics and imaging results for patients with lymphoma. ( non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease). |
| Tumour type | Age (years)/sex | FDG SUV | Blood flow (mL/min/mL) |
| Active lymphoma | 65/M | 3.5 | 0.99 | Active lymphoma | 71/F | 5.0 | 0.58 | Active lymphoma | 40/F | 5.0 | 0.7 | Active lymphoma | 62/M | 5.1 | 1.01 | Active lymphoma | 56/M | 6.5 | 0.6 | Active lymphoma | 83/M | 11.9 | 0.4 |
| Median (Interquartile range) | 64 (57–69) | 5.0 (5.0–6.1) | 0.65 (0.59–0.92) |
| Inactive lymphoma | 40/F | 1 | 0.24 | Inactive lymphoma | 51/M | 1 | 0.1 | Inactive lymphoma | 58/M | 1.2 | 0.32 | Inactive lymphoma | 17/F | 1.5 | 0.37 | Inactive lymphoma | 77/M | 1.6 | 0.24 |
| Median (Interquartile range) | 51 (40–58) | 1.2 (1.0–1.5) | 0.24 (0.24–0.32) |
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(b) Demographics and imaging results for patients with colorectal liver metastases. |
| Tumour type | Age/sex | FDG SUV | Blood flow (mL/min/mL) |
| Colorectal cancer | 73/F | 5.5 | 0.15 | Colorectal cancer | 49/M | 5.5 | 1.04 | Colorectal cancer | 58/F | 3.8 | 0.43 | Colorectal cancer | 52/F | 5.3 | 0.57 | Colorectal cancer | 64/M | 6.9 | 0.49 | Colorectal cancer | 73/M | 4.8 | 0.26 | Colorectal cancer | 75/F | 4.1 | 0.16 | Colorectal cancer | 56/F | 5.8 | 0.57 | Colorectal cancer | 50/M | 5.1 | 0.13 | Colorectal cancer | 72/M | 5.2 | 0.16 | Colorectal cancer | 65/M | 5.3 | 0.64 | Colorectal cancer | 87/F | 6.1 | 0.37 |
| Median (Interquartile range) | 65 (55–73) | 5.3 (5.0–5.6) | 0.37 (0.16–0.57) |
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