Clinical relevance of 201Tl-chloride SPET in the differential diagnosis of brain tumours

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Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) may not be reliable in the differential diagnosis of tumour necrosis, scar and recurrent tumour. We compared 201Tl-chloride SPET with CT and MRI for the differential diagnosis of these cerebral lesions. Brain SPET was performed in 40 patients after the intravenous injection of 201Tl-chloride. All 40 patients also had a CT or MRI scan, and a histological diagnosis was available for 27 of the patients. For each patient, the ratio of counts in the lesion region of interest (ROD to counts in the contralateral ROI was calculated and found to be between 0.58 and 9.60. The ratios for high-grade gliomas, metastases and meningiomas were high (> 2.7), especially in tumours with good vacularization. A low ratio (201

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