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.