Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the lesion type, size, and perfusion parameters (all values expressed in mean ± sd).a
| Measurement | Type of squamous cell carcinoma |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well differentiated (n = 10) | Moderately differentiated (n = 7) | Poorly differentiated (n = 2) | Un-classified (n = 5) | All lesions (n = 24) | |
| Target lesion size (cm.) | 4.1 ± 1.1 | 4.0 ± 1.3 | 3.9 ± 0.9 | 5.7 ± 2.8 | 4.4 ± 1.7 |
| Lymph node size (cm.) | 1.6 ± 1.1 | 1.4 ± 0.5 | 1.3 ± 0.6 | 1.8 ± 0.6 | 1.5 ± 0.8 |
| Perfusion parameters | |||||
| BFb (ml/100 g/min) | 124.5 ± 33.5 | 103.7 ± 34.7 | 102.7 ± 9.4 | 81.8 ± 17.8 | 107.7 ± 33.0 |
| BVc (ml/100 g) | 12.3 ± 4.5 | 11.3 ± 3.1 | 8.3 ± 7.0 | 8.5 ± 2.2 | 10.9 ± 4.0 |
| MTTd (s) | 6.9 ± 0.9 | 7.8 ± 1.9 | 5.0 ± 4.2 | 7.8 ± 1.5 | 7.2 ± 1.8 |
| PSe (ml/100 g/min) | 45.7 ± 14.3 | 57.4 ± 17.9 | 62.5 ± 24.8 | 49.9 ± 12.7 | 51.4 ± 15.9 |
a
Standard deviation.
b
Blood flow.
c
Blood volume.
d
Mean transit time
e
Permeability surface.