Table 2.

Contribution of MRI, amino acid PET, and PWI in brain tumour diagnosis

	MRI	PWI	Amino acid PET (MET, FET, FDOPA)
Differential diagnosis	++	–	+
Tumour extent	+	+	++
Biopsy guidance	+	++	++
Grading	++	++	+a
Prognosis	+	++	+
Recurrence	+	++	++
Therapy monitoring	+	+	++

It reflects the personal opinion of the authors on the basis of this literature review and their personal experience in the field

++, high diagnostic value; +, limited diagnostic value; –, not helpful

^aIncreased diagnostic value when using dynamic FET PET