Abstract #0483
            Comparison of DTI and 11C-methionine PET for reliable prediction of tumor cell density in gliomas
                      Manabu Kinoshita                     1                    , Hideyuki Arita                     2                    , 						Naoki Kagawa                     2                    , Yoshiyuki Watanabe                     3                    , 						Jun Hatazawa                     4                    , Naoya Hashimoto                     2                    , 						and Toshiki Yoshimine                     2          
            
            1
           
           Neurosurgery, Osaka Medical Center for 
						Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Osaka, Japan,
           
            2
           
           Neurosurgery, 
						Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, 
						Osaka, Japan,
           
            3
           
           Radiology, 
						Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, 
						Osaka, Japan,
           
            4
           
           Nuclear 
						Medicine and Tracer Kinetics, Osaka University Graduate 
						School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
          
            
          Imaging and predicting tumor cell density or tumor cell 
						invasion is challenging. The authors have compared 
						diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and 11C-methionine PET in 
						terms of tumor cell density prediction by use of 98 
						stereotactically sampled glioma tissues from 37 
						patients. Tumor cell density showed a statistically 
						significant positive correlation with MET-TNR (p<0.0001, 
						R2=0.43) and negative correlation with rADC (p=0.0096, 
						R2=0.09), while rFA did not correlate with tumor cell 
						density. Multiple regression analysis revealed that 
						MET-TNR was the solo statistically significant factor 
						for tumor cell density prediction (MET-TNR: p<0.0001, 
						rADC: p=0.06).
         
				
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