Shonit Punwani1, Paul Humphries1,
Stuart Taylor1, Stephen Daw2, Ananth Shankar2,
Alan Bainbridge3, Ziauddin Zia Saad4, Ashley Groves4,
Steve Halligan
1Centre for Medical
Imaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 2Paediatrics,
University College London Hospital; 3Department of Medical Physics
& Bioengineering, University College London; 4Institute of
Nuclear Medicine, University College London
Chemotherapy effect has been related to initial tumour cellular density and metabolic activity. ADC is correlated with cellular density and PET SUV measurements to metabolic activity. This study investigates the relationship between pretreatment ADC / SUV values treatment response as determined by tumour volume reduction.