Table 1.
Clinical reporting on PET | Subtracted T1 contrast images matched PET uptake | 75-min delayed T1 contrast grayscale inverted images matched PET AC images | DWI grayscale inverted images matched PET AC images | Comments |
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Radiation necrosis without recurrence [Figure 5] | Matched | Matched | Matched | DWI and Del-CE can be surrogate markers for FDG and amino acid PET in this scenario |
High-grade glioma - with recurrence [Figure 6] | Matched | Matched | Matched | DWI and Del-CE can be surrogate markers for FDG and amino acid PET in this scenario |
Low grade - enhancing glioma [Figure 7] | Matched | Matched | Mismatched | FDG and DWI matched as both show less uptake and signal in this scenario DWI did not correlate with amino acid PET in this scenario amino acid PET is sensitive irrespective of tumor grade unlike DWI Del-CE was noted in tumor uptake area of both FDG and amino acid PET Del-CE can be a marker for amino acid PET also |
Low grade - nonenhancing glioma [Figure 8] | Mismatched | Mismatched | Mismatched | Both DWI and Del-CE did not correlate with amino acid PET in this scenario |
Low-grade melanoma [Figure 9] | Matched | Matched | Mismatched | DWI no signal but Del-CE and PET showed uptake as lesion was T1 hyperintense, and both FDG and amino acid PET uptake in this scenario |
DWI: Diffusion-weighted imaging, PET: Positron emission tomography, AC: Attenuation-corrected, FDG: Fluorodeoxyglucose, Del-CE: Del-Contrast enhanced