The exploration of quantitative intra-tumoral metabolic heterogeneity in dual-time 18 F-FDG PET/CT of pancreatic cancer

ConclusionsThis study investigated the  change and inner correlations of quantitative tumoral metabolic heterogeneity in the dual-time18F-FDG-PET/CT scan of PC patients. Some features displayed the difference between dual-time scans. Conventional metabolic parameters were weakly related to the change of texture feature. The change of texture feature in resectable PC group was different from that in unresectable PC group. This result is potential to provide more information for the image evaluation of PC.
Source: Abdominal Imaging - Category: Radiology Source Type: research